U.S. in full spectrum War with Libya, Pentagon plans to exterminate civilians

[larsonstdoc]

http://tarpley.net/

  From Tarpley--a headline for his stint on the AJ Show


Qaddafi resistance leads Obama to shift from color revolution charade to NATO aggression in Libya to save CIA rebel militia; UN Charter a dead letter; Command and control chaos as Italy rejects French-British command, Arab puppets reject NATO command; Craven Obama seeks low profile; Goal for Libya is tribal/warlord breakup on model of Sudan, Yemen, Serbia; Egypt protesters turn against imperialists; Putin likens war to “medieval crusade”

[SavvyRonPaul]

LOL 50% support this? What a HUGE LIE! NOBODY HAS Tweeted their Likudnik ZioNAZI AL CIAduh propaganda, too bad you cannot vote or mail in to condemn their total lies. Best thing to do is just watch up to the Likudnik-liar McCain part, and then close it.

The first video showed a bit of truth - nobody in Libya is buying this. This blatant criminal war crime is the greatest threat yet to US security that the Likudnik Mafia have ever devised.

Thankfully most Arabs know that we too are criminally under Rothschild-Corporate fascist occupation here too.

Ah, I was looking for you to catch the phrase and I am not quoting word for word here, from McCain, "We need to turn this from no-fly zone to no-drive zone." 

I already knew from Obama's speech saying there would be no boots on the ground that there would be, because everything they say you take the exact opposite as the truth.  And McCain's little comment there sure supports my theory.

Plus, he also admitted to supporting the rebels.

[Dok]

Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign.


A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, after fears they would be drawn into the conflict if NATO takes over control from the U.S.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368693/Libya-war-Germans-pull-forces-NATO-Libyan-coalition-falls-apart.html#ixzz1HQbf0zuD

[larsonstdoc]

Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign.


A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, after fears they would be drawn into the conflict if NATO takes over control from the U.S.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368693/Libya-war-Germans-pull-forces-NATO-Libyan-coalition-falls-apart.html#ixzz1HQbf0zuD

  EXCELLENT!  Of course the Americans/French/Brits will stay together because of the 3 Stooges (Puppets)---Sarkosy, Sotero and Cameron.

[shipgeek]

Libye effort my butt!

U.S. General Leading Libya Effort 'Follows Trouble'
by Tom Bowman

Gen. Carter Ham, the American officer in charge of the Libyan military operation, heads U.S. Africa Command, a job he started just 10 days before attacks against Libya began. But Ham is used to tough assignments.

They say everything comes in threes. Here's Ham's trifecta: A couple of years ago, the Pentagon turned to him to investigate the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. Ham's finding: Army officers failed in their oversight of the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Hassan.

When that investigation was over, Ham took on challenge No. 2: Assess the impact of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. Ham's conclusion: It'll work.

Now, he has Libya.

"I don't think trouble follows him — I think he follows trouble," said retired Lt. Gen. John Sattler, who served with Ham in Iraq and later at the Pentagon.

Sattler says he isn't surprised that officials hand Ham these assignments.

"I think when tough things come up ... the folks who know him put him in there to go ahead [and] bring him to some positive conclusion," he said.

A Regular Joe

Ham is a rarity among four-star officers because he started out as a private. He was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division in the early 1970s before going to college and then becoming a second lieutenant.

Ask people about him, and you get the standard answers: regular Joe; the kind of guy you can have a beer with.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bob Scales says it's true.

"He's highly respected by soldiers simply because of his personality," Scales said. "He's probably one of the most un-general-like generals we have at the four-star level in the Army today."

Ham got his first combat command in 2004. He spent a year in Northern Iraq. During that tour, just before Christmas, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a mess tent, killing 22, including 18 Americans.

Ham arrived on the scene minutes after the blast. A couple of days later, he described what happened.

"What we think is likely, but certainly not certain, is that an individual in an Iraqi military uniform, possibly with a vest-worn explosive device, was inside the facility and detonated, causing this tragedy," Ham said at the time.

'I Don't Want To Let Go'

Ham called it the worst day of his life. A few months later, he returned home from Iraq. But he couldn't forget that day. He couldn't sleep. Loud noises startled him. He had mood swings. He talked about his experience on CNN a few years later.

"I was withdrawn; I wanted to still be there," he said. "I felt like what I was doing was not important because I had soldiers who were killed. It's not a matter of letting go; I don't want to let go."

This was unusual. Soldiers didn't admit to problems. Ham was among just a few senior officers who sought help for post-traumatic stress disorder. By going public, he showed the way for countless soldiers.

"They now have the courage to follow his example because he took the time to lay that example out there," Sattler said.

These days, Ham oversees the Libyan campaign from his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. He has to translate political goals into practical military action. It's complicated. Ham says U.S. and coalition pilots have to protect civilians but not become the air force for Libyan rebels.

"These are situations that brief much better at a headquarters than they do in a cockpit of an aircraft," he said.

The U.S. hopes to hand off responsibility for the Libyan campaign soon. That doesn't mean Ham's tough jobs will end. He'll keep running Africa Command, which means everything from pirates to humanitarian missions and, eventually, the aftereffects of the war in Libya.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/23/134779497/u-s-general-leading-libya-effort-follows-trouble

 

[jofortruth]

The UN Resolution's main focus was "TO PROTECT CIVILIANS". Do you think bombing a country and shooting missiles is a way to protect CIVILIANS?    The only CIVILIANS they are protecting are their OWN AL QAEDA type goons on the ground who were put there to destabilize the country. (CIA GOONS)

These people always use a so called "humanitarian" reason to do what they do, while proceeding to KILL INDIVIDUALS. Do you see a mixed message there?

The Globalists are a bunch of liars, misfits and fools. They lie in everything they do, and people keep buying their lies. Just amazing!

[Xill]

I was listening to Gaddafi's speach this morning. Typical Saddam Hussein, but a much better actor. He was screaming and full of anger, really, such a good voice actor, better than many in the movie industry.

This guy is the perfect caricature of what a dictator should be. The answer to Hollywood's predictive programming.

They're going to build him up for something bigger so brace for impact.

[Dig]

I was listening to Gaddafi's speach this morning. Typical Saddam Hussein, but a much better actor. He was screaming and full of anger, really, such a good voice actor, better than many in the movie industry.

This guy is the perfect caricature of what a dictator should be. The answer to Hollywood's predictive programming.

They're going to build him up for something bigger so brace for impact.

Did you understand what he was saying?

[Xill]

Did you understand what he was saying?

No, of course not... It was fragments with an interpreter.
You should check it out, best actor of the year.
Well, it must not be on the net yet, can't find it.

It's here (sounded more aggressive on radio when waking up - or maybe it was the way they presented it):
finishes with:
"All the Libyans are prepared to be Martyred but we will be victorious, you will die."

Isn't that a pretty sentence, Illuminati-style?

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

[Dig]

No, of course not... It was fragments with an interpreter.

You should check it out, best actor of the year.

Well, it must not be on the net yet, can't find it.

He has been doing it for decades. He is a charismatic showman. But he also built a $20 Billion/26 year water irrigation project that will sustain population growth and a middle class for over 100 years.

Mubarak has done similar things in Egypt.

This is why they are being targeted, not their flashy speeches.

He has already proven that he is not the devil they are trying to make him out to be with his anti-NWO speech to the UN in 2009. The UN has erased the speech. Here is an excerpt:

Historic Speech of Gaddafi to UN General Assembly, 2009

Complete Transcript

Note: United Nations removed the English transcript of his speech from its website and western media removed the transcript from all types of media resources.

http://metaexistence.org/gaddafispeech.htm

[...]

The Arabs have no animosity with the Israelis. They are cousins and they live with them in peace. Arabs have no future. Arabs have no future. The future is Israfil (Angel). I tell you again, our future is Israfil (Angel). The Palestinian refugees must return and they have to live peacefully in one state. It is you who make the holocaust for them. You burned them down in the chambers of gas in Europe. It is you who hate the Jews but we don't.

We have accommodated them, we protected them since Roman days and since they were expelled from Andulsia. We also protected them in the days of Hitler and from the gas chambers of Hitler. It is ourselves who protected them and it is you who expelled them. You expelled them and told them go and fight the Arabs.

Let us expose this reality. We are not enemies of the Jews. They are our cousins. The Jews will need the Arabs one day but the Arabs will not protect them as they did in the past. Let us have a look at what Tito did. What Hadrin did. What Edward 1 did and what Hitler did to the Jews. You hate them and you are anti-Semitic.

And what is Henry Kissinger's record with committing genocide on a civilian population?

Kissinger: I am sorry I said f**k the jews

for the record:
Henry Kissinger:
Putting Jews in gas chambers overseas is not a concern for the United States Foreign Policy
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/11/2742121/kissinger-gassing-jews-would-not-be-a-us-problem
December 11, 2010

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Henry Kissinger is heard saying on newly released Nixon tapes that the genocide of Soviet Jews would not be an American concern. The tapes chronicle President Richard Nixon's obsession with disparaging Jews and other minorities. Kissinger's remarks come after a meeting he and Nixon had with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973 in which Meir pleads for the United States to put pressure on the Soviet Union to release its Jews. Nixon and Kissinger, then the secretary of state, dismiss the plea after Meir leaves. "The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy," The New York Times on Saturday quotes Kissinger, as saying on the tapes. "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."

Who is the real "Hitler"

[Dig]

No, of course not... It was fragments with an interpreter.
You should check it out, best actor of the year.
Well, it must not be on the net yet, can't find it.

It's here (sounded more aggressive on radio when waking up - or maybe it was the way they presented it):
finishes with:
"All the Libyans are prepared to be Martyred but we will be victorious, you will die."

Isn't that a pretty sentence, Illuminati-style?

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

Well since the last bombings killed his daughter and many other innocent civilians, I doubt he is underestimating the situation. NATO will murder every last carbon based organism in Libya to wrestle control of the water for Rothschilds/Bilderberg if the public does not wake up to what is going on. Make no mistake about it. Never forget Dresden.

[Dig]

Gee...I am starting to notice a pattern...

Libya calls on UN to investigate UK/US influence in manufacturing civil genocide
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202908.0

CIA Asset blows the whistle on planned Libya genocide by MI6/SAS/CIA/Mossad
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202896.0

US, France, UK Setting up Military Bases in Libya's Oil-Rich East
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202557.0

WaPo: Iran-Contra plan to seduce and weaponize a "Rebel Army" in Libya
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202409.0

East India Trading Company orders new "Boston Port Act" against Libya
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202406.0

Libya's prison ain't got nothing on Abu Graib, Jonestown, or Gitmo
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202411.0

Taji Mustafa's radicalization of Libya funded by the CIA/MI6
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202412.0

U.S. breaks UN treaties by directly engaging in a coup d'etat in Libya
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202382.0

Trilateral Commission Declares: Yeah we manufactured these revolutions...Derrrrr
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202368.0

Chatham House/Rothschild/JP Morgan/RAND/UN/IMF/Harvard round table 1/31/2010
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202367.0

Psychopathic Genocidal Warmongering Puppet & Hypocrite Soetoro Condemns Libyan Violence
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202147.0

Rothschild continues spreading rumors about Gaddafi since he exposed NWO
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202163.0

MI6: NATO's "Precision Strike" will assassinate Gaddafi and then cover it up
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202157.0

Obama declares an Al-CIA-duh pride week in Libya to help ex-Gitmo terror patsy
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202111.0

"Smart Mobs" Execute two Mercenaries in Libya
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202089.0

Oil Grab - Does NATO Plan to Occupy Libya? By FIDEL CASTRO
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202041.0

Perfect timing: Biggest Mideast Arms Show during "spontaneous" Mideast Coups
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=201970.0

Rothschild's Reuters setting up NATO invasion of Libya to spark WWIII
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=201957.0

CIA group led by Halliburton, Chevron, Shell, Raytheon targeting Libya goes dark
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=201890.0

Rothschild calls death of 200 a Genocide. Rothschilds killed over 50 million!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=201825.0

[Dig]

No, of course not... It was fragments with an interpreter.
You should check it out, best actor of the year.
Well, it must not be on the net yet, can't find it.

It's here (sounded more aggressive on radio when waking up - or maybe it was the way they presented it):
finishes with:
"All the Libyans are prepared to be Martyred but we will be victorious, you will die."

Isn't that a pretty sentence, Illuminati-style?

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

BTW...look at the new puppet they want to lead Libya while giving their water supply to Rothschilds

I MEAN WHAT THE F*CK!

THIS IS THE ENTIRE PLOT OF THE MOVIE QUANTUM OF SOLACE!


CFR's Muslim "Jim Jones" prepares shell shocked Egyptians for the Cybernetic NWO

Here comes the Jim Jones of the CIA/MI6's Muslim Brotherhood to declare to the world...

Dope, Inc. now owns all of Egypt and Bilderberg will false flag any opposition to the Kissinger/RAND gameplan!

He is here to help the Emir of Qatar in promoting the CYBERNETIC agenda to over 1 billion muslims...


Banned Qaradawi returns to lead Friday prayers in Egypt
Thursday, 17 February 2011
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/17/138093.html

For the first time since he was banned from leading weekly friday prayers in Egypt 30 years ago, prominent Muslim scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi will lead thousands in the weekly prayers from Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday. Sources told Al Arabiya that a military force will accompany the head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars from his home to Tahrir Square, provide security for the prayers and accompany him back to his residence. Al-Qaradawi last delivered a Friday prayer sermon in Egypt in 1981 after the assassination of former President Anwar el-Sadat. Other prominent Muslim scholars were also banned from delivering the Friday sermon, such as Abd al-Hamid Kishk, Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, and Sheikh Ahmed El-Mahallawi. El-Mahallawi lately returned to leading Friday prayers during the revolution at al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque in Alexandria. Sheikh Qaradawi confirmed in a telephone call with the German Press Agency that he would lead tomorrow's prayers in Tahrir, with hundreds of thousands expected to attend.  Some of Qaradawi's sons and daughters took part the Tahrir demonstrations leading up to the overthrow of the Mubarak.


Yusuf al-Qaradawi

He is #3 most influential Bilderberg puppet according to the CFR: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/06/16/the_world_s_top_20_public_intellectuals

He is banned from the UK yet he is a trustee at UK's Oxford University in the area of Islamic studies (WTF?-talk about bipolarization in MI6 intelligence operations): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232398.stm

He workd directly for the Emir of Qatar (200 year old intergenerational feudal rule) to make a movie about Mohammed. Qatar also owns Al-Jazeera which was instrumental in covering up MI6' role in the usurpation of Egypt. Qatar also is at the cornerstone of the NWO plan to transform the Islamic world into a cybernetic controlled transhumanist entity (as all of us are also being transformed). They are doing this via the "Knowledge Economy" scam. http://ae.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091102120242/Qatar%20Firm%20Plans%20Film%20On%20Prophet/

He is helping to use perverted Sharia law to justify Rothschild/Rockefeller's insane usury banking systems: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1898

Like the Google Executive, he promotes Martyrdom...but in the way of the NWO's cruel trick...suicide bombings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/07_july/07/newsnight.shtml

And of course he promotes the insanity of Bilderberg's social deception...democracy over republic: http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=11311

And just in case you do not believe the awesome essay entitled: Clash of Civilizations ( http://www.redmoonrising.com/Ikhwan/Clash.htm ) ...he actually wrote a book called: "Islam: The Future Civilization"


More on this cybernetic preacher to convert over a billion muslims into IBM human sensors!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Qaradawi

GOOD SUGGESTION!


The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals

In our last issue, we named the world's top 100 public intellectuals and asked readers to vote for those they deem most deserving of the top honors. Now, 500,000 votes later, we reveal the results of the reader poll. Plus, members of the Top 100 name the intellectuals they believe should have made the list.

JUNE 16, 2008

Rankings are an inherently dangerous business. Whether offering a hierarchy of countries, cities, or colleges, any such list -- at least any such list worth compiling -- is likely to generate a fair amount of debate. In the last issue, when we asked readers to vote for their picks of the world’s top public intellectuals, we imagined many people would want to make their opinions known. But no one expected the avalanche of voters who came forward. During nearly four weeks of voting, more than 500,000 people came to ForeignPolicy.com to cast ballots.

Such an outpouring reveals something unique about the power of the men and women we chose to rank. They were included on our initial list of 100 in large part because of the influence of their ideas. But part of being a “public intellectual” is also having a talent for communicating with a wide and diverse public. This skill is certainly an asset for some who find themselves in the list’s top ranks. For example, a number of intellectuals -- including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled -- mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites. Others issued press releases or gave interviews to local newspapers. Press coverage profiling these intellectuals appeared around the world, with stories running in Canada, India, Indonesia, Qatar, Spain, and elsewhere.

No one spread the word as effectively as the man who tops the list. In early May, the Top 100 list was mentioned on the front page of Zaman, a Turkish daily newspaper closely aligned with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Within hours, votes in his favor began to pour in. His supporters -- typically educated, upwardly mobile Muslims -- were eager to cast ballots not only for their champion but for other Muslims in the Top 100. Thanks to this groundswell, the top 10 public intellectuals in this year’s reader poll are all Muslim. The ideas for which they are known, particularly concerning Islam, differ significantly. It’s clear that, in this case, identity politics carried the day.

1. FETHULLAH GÜLEN
Religious leader • Turkey

An Islamic scholar with a global network of millions of followers, Gülen is both revered and reviled in his native Turkey. To members of the Gülen movement, he is an inspirational leader who encourages a life guided by moderate Islamic principles. To his detractors, he represents a threat to Turkey’s secular order. He has kept a relatively low profile since settling in the United States in 1999, having fled Turkey after being accused of undermining secularism.

2. MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Microfinancier, activist • Bangladesh

More than 30 years ago, Yunus loaned several dozen poor entrepreneurs in his native Bangladesh a total of $27. It was the beginning of a lifetime devoted to fighting poverty through microfinance, efforts that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Over the years, his Grameen Bank, now operating in more than 100 countries, has loaned nearly $7 billion in small sums to more than 7 million borrowers -- 97 percent of them women. Ninety-eight percent of the loans have been repaid.

3. YUSUF AL-QARADAWI
Cleric • Egypt/Qatar

The host of the popular Sharia and Life TV program on Al Jazeera, Qaradawi issues w .eekly fatwas on everything from whether Islam forbids all consumption of alcohol (no) to whether fighting U.S. troops in Iraq is a legitimate form of resistance (yes). Considered the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi condemned the September 11 attacks, but his pronouncements since, like his justification of suicide attacks, ensure his divisive reputation.

Check out Kissinger's new leader who is about to take over the entire Middle East and North Africa to be run out of Qatar...

He is MI6 just like Hitler was and is funded by the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Bushes, Harrimans, Carnegies, Fords just like Hitler was...

CFR's #3 Intellectual: KILL GADDAFI
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110221/wl_mideast_afp/libyapoliticsunrestfatwa_20110221212046
– Mon Feb 21, 4:20 pm ET

DOHA (AFP) – Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi should do so "to rid Libya of him." "Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Kadhafi should do so," Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television. He also told Libyan soldiers "not to obey orders to strike at your own people," and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Kadhafi's regime. Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the Arab world thanks to his religious broadcasts on Al-Jazeera. He has in the past defended "violence carried out by certain Muslims." The West accuses the cleric of supporting "terrorism" because he sanctioned Palestinian suicide attacks in Israel. Britain and the United States have refused to grant him entry visas. The cleric, spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and longtime resident of Qatar, heads the International Union for Muslim Scholars.

He is commanding from Qatar for all of the children to martyr themselves and institute violence for his personal cause on behalf of Bildebrberg and the 19th Century run monarchy in Qatar who runs Al-Jazeera.

Qatar-based Muslim scholar who supports suicide bombings, Fatwahs, denies the holocaust but says the jews deserved it, gets funded by Oxford University, and is the CFR's top 3rd most public intellectual
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=822
Has issued numerous fatwas supporting Islamic extremism and denouncing Israel and the U.S.

Based in Qatar, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is one of the most influential clerics in Sunni Islam. He currently serves as president of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFW), and is a highly influential spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qaradawi has twice (in 1976 and 2004) turned down opportunities to serve as the Brotherhood’s highest-ranking leader. His preference, he explains, is to avoid tying himself to "any movement which might constrain my actions, even if this is the Muslim Brotherhood under whose umbrella I grew and which I so defended."

In addition to his affiliations with the aforementioned groups, Qaradawi is founder and president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars, which has issued several anti-Zionist fatwas (religious edicts). He is chairman of the IslamOnline website, which has published numerous articles and religious rulings which were anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and supportive of violence against non-Muslims. He is also chairman (in absentia) of the board of trustees at the Michigan-based Islamic American University (IAU), a subsidiary of the Muslim American Society. And he is president of the Union of Good, a Saudi-based umbrella organization which represents Islamic fundraising groups worldwide, and which has transferred tens of millions of dollars directly to Hamas over the years.

Qaradawi was born in Egypt in September 1926 and, following the early death of his father, was raised by an uncle. He memorized the Koran in its entirety by age ten, and was particularly drawn to the brand of extremist, anti-Western Islam advanced by Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

After attending the Al-Azhar Theological Seminary in Cairo, Qaradawi served as dean of the Islamic Department at the Faculties of Shariah and Education in Qatar from 1977 to 1990. Next he went to Algeria, where he was chairman of the Islamic Scientific Council at the Islamic University and Higher Institutions in 1990–91. Qaradawi then returned to Qatar and was appointed director of the Seerah and Sunnah Center at Qatar University, a post he continues to occupy to this day.

From 1998-2000, Qaradawi was a board of directors member with the Islamic Society of Boston, whose founder and first president was Abdurahman Alamoudi -- an avid supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, now incarcerated on terrorism-related charges.

As of 1999, Qaradawi was one of the largest shareholders in Al Taqwa Bank, a Bahamas-based financial institution which the U.S. Treasury Department designated as a terrorist financier (with ties to al Qaeda) in 2001. He also served on the bank's Sharia Board, which oversaw the institution's adherence to Islamic law.

One of Qaradawi's foremost passions is his deep and unwavering hatred for, and distrust of, the Jewish people. He has unambiguously justified Palestinian suicide bombings as legitimate responses to alleged “Zionist” aggression and occupation. In 2004 he told BBC television, "Allah Almighty is just; through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have, and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do."

During a press conference around that same time, Qaradawi added that suicide bombings were "weapons to which the weak resort in order to upset the balance because the powerful have all the weapons that the weak are denied." On another occasion, he asserted that suicide bombings "are not in any way included in the framework of prohibited terrorism, even if the victims include some civilians." This, he explained, was because Israel was "a society of invaders" whose "nature" was "colonialist, occupational, [and] racist."

Qaradawi has authored more than 100 books on Islam, and he hosts a popular weekly television program called "Shariah and Life" on the Arabic television station and satellite network Al Jazeera. During one particular April 2004 telecast, he praised Allah for providing Palestinians with the means to transform themselves into "human bombs.”

Also in April 2004, Qaradawi issued a fatwa declaring a Muslim boycott of American- and Israeli-made products. “To buy their goods is to support tyranny, oppression and aggression,” he wrote. “Buying goods from them will strengthen them; our duty is to make them as weak as we can.”

That same year, Qaradawi expressed support for the anti-U.S. insurgency in Iraq, endorsing the kidnapping and murder of American civilians there. Announcing a fatwa at the Egyptian Journalists' Union convention in Cairo, he stated:
"All of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately."

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, Qaradawi declared that Muslims were obliged to support the terrorist group Hezbollah in its combat operations against Israel.

In a 2007 interview, Qaradawi said: "It is obligatory on all Muslims to resist any possible attack the U.S. might launch against Iran. The U.S. is an enemy of Islam that has already declared war on Islam under the disguise of war on terrorism and provides Israel with unlimited support."

During the 2007 Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) trial (which examined evidence of HLF's fundraising on behalf of Hamas), the U.S. government released a list of approximately 300 of HLF's "unindicted co-conspirators" and "joint venturers." Among HLF's unindicted co-conspirators were many individuals affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and/or Hamas, including Qaradawi, Omar Ahmad, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Abdallah Azzam, Jamal Badawi, Mohammad Jaghlit, Mousa Abu Marzook, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, and Ahmed Yassin. Among the organizations named on the list were the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Hamas, INFOCOM, the Islamic Association for Palestine, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Arab Youth Association, the United Association for Studies and Research, and the North American Islamic Trust.

In a January 2009 speech that aired on Al Jazeera, Qaradawi said:
"Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them - even though they exaggerated this issue - he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers."

At a January 2009 "Gaza Victory Rally" in Qatar, Qaradawi declared:
"The only thing that I hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an opportunity to go to the land of Jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair. I will shoot Allah's enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to Allah.... [Allah] will not allow these people [Jews] to continue to spread corruption in the land. We wait for the revenge of Allah to descend upon them, and Allah willing, it will be by our own hands."

Qaradawi then beseeched the deity not to "spare a single one of them." "Oh Allah," he said, "count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."

In a February 2010 interview with BBC Arabic, Qaradawi reaffirmed his support for suicide bombings:
"I supported martyrdom operations. This is a necessary thing, as I told them in London. Give the Palestinians tanks, airplanes, and missiles, and they won't carry out martyrdom operations. They are forced to turn themselves into human bombs, in order to defend their land, their honor, and their homeland."

In an October 2010 interview with Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi was asked whether Muslims should try to acquire atomic weapons "to terrorize their enemies." He replied that such an objective was permissible, saying he was "happy" that Pakistan already possessed such a weapon. According to Qaradawi, the procurement of such agents of mass destruction was in compliance with Koranic verses urging Muslims "to terrorize thereby the enemy of God and your enemy."

Also in late 2010, Qaradawi stated: "We must irrigate [the] tree of freedom with our blood. We must not leave the Palestinians alone." Every Muslim, he elaborated, "must play his part to help our brothers in Palestine until they obtain their right. Not one inch of the Land of Islam must remain in the grasp of infidels and occupiers."

Due to his support for Palestinian terrorism, Qaradawi has been barred from entering the United States since 1999. In February 2008, the United Kingdom also denied his visa on grounds that "[t]he UK will not tolerate the presence of those who seek to justify any act of terrorist violence...”

[Dig]

'Libya war could last 30 years': Armed forces minister's extraordinary admission
By TIM SHIPMAN

Pro-war MPs out of step with public mood
Ministers admitted yesterday that they have no idea how long the military operation against Colonel Gaddafi could take.
Asked for an estimate, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said: 'How long is a piece of string? We don't know how long this is going to go on.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369019/Libya-war-30-years-Ministers-extraordinary-admission.html

W T F ?

[shipgeek]

W T F ?

Reposting.
Make this go viral.

 

[Freeski]

Not sure how the UN numbers resolutions but here's an interesting coincidence:

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a regularly-scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo via Benghazi shot down by Israeli fighter jets in 1973.

At 10:30 on February 21, 1973, the 727-224 left Tripoli, but became lost due to a combination of bad weather and equipment failure over northern Egypt around 13:44 (1:44 P.M. local). It entered the then-Israeli-controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs and shot down and most of the people on board killed while trying to re-enter Egyptian airspace.[1] Of the 113 people on board, there were 5 survivors, including the co-pilot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114

UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Libya
http://www.cfr.org/libya/un-security-council-resolution-1973-libya/p24426

[shipgeek]

AFRICOM briefing Q&A: More lies.

USAfricaCommand US AFRICOM
AFRICOM JTF Brief: Q. How can you take him out w/o ground forces in Libya? A. The coalition not targeting Qadhafi. It is 2 uphold Res 1973

USAfricaCommand US AFRICOM
AFRICOM JTF Brief: Q. Confirm reports that Qadhafi's son killed? A. I have no information on that.

[Dig]

NO GROUND TROOPS? -- 2,200 Marines from 26th MEU deployed to Libya

ONSLOW COUNTY -- We've seen Camp Lejuene Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and now they are joining the fight against Libya.

About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or 26th MEU will take part. Their mission is to help end the violence directed at the Libyan people.

http://www.wcti12.com/news/27257042/detail.html

Someone please explain to me how Obama is able to walk with both feet in his mouth???

Left's view on Libya: Is this Bush's third term?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/23/avlon.left.obama/index.html?hpt=C2

New York (CNN) -- It's déjà vu all over again.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is talking impeachment. Ralph Nader is grumbling that the president of the United States is a "war criminal." Michael Moore is venting his spleen on the subject of U.S. hypocrisy.

[Xill]

This is part of the text given to McCain (working as a weapon salesman) on his visit to Libya. [3 Wikileaks released today from Tripoli for those interested]
....
4.(SBU/NF) Libya has stated its number one priority, in return for relinquishing WMD, is a security guarantee by the U.S. against foreign aggression. To that end, Libya has expressed an interest in purchasing lethal weapons from U.S. firms. It would be helpful if you could provide congressional perspectives on lethal sales to Libya and the security commitments that must be fulfilled prior to any U.S. consideration of lethal sales. The GOL has also expressed a desire to receive in operational order the eight C-130 planes that Libya purchased in the 1970's, which were never delivered to Libya. Although the USG views the case as a strictly commercial matter between Libya and Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the C-130s, the aircraft are stored at a U.S. airbase, and the U.S. Air Force is encouraging Lockheed Martin to propose a compromise. Notably, the GOL has not yet agreed to end-use monitoring or security of U.S. technology agreements - two necessary steps for expanded TRIPOLI 00000648 002.2 OF 003 military-to-military cooperation, such as International Military Education and Training (IMET) programs.
...

http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/08/09TRIPOLI648.html

[Dig]

OMFG...Progressives are saying "the reason we are committing genocide and killing millions of innocent people is because our lunch meeting the other day was not successful"

Is this a fricking joke? That has nothing to do with it! This is a Bilderberg operation to steal water resources for the next 10 generations and has little to do with their fricking lunch meeting.

Progressive caucus splits on Libya, abandons joint resolution opposing intervention
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/23/progressive-caucus-splits-on-libya-abandons-joint-resolution-opposing-intervention/
By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 -- 10:00 am

WASHINGTON – Soon after President Barack Obama declared last Friday that the U.S. would wage a military intervention in Libya, members of the 75-strong House Progressive Caucus began quietly discussing how to oppose the effort with maximum impact.

By the weekend, when the first U.S. missiles struck Libya, a full caucus resolution was in the works. Members of the progressive caucus held a conference call Sunday to gather thoughts and flesh it out.

They are already setting up a hundred excuses for the narrative to follow where CNN will say "sorry we supported this gencide like we supported iraq for 7 murdering years"

[shipgeek]

The planetary intox continues...

March in support of no-fly zone
    * Published: 23/03/2011 at 11:43 PM
    * Online news:

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Benghazi on Wednesday, gathering in the city's central square to show their support for an internationally-enforced no-fly zone over Libya.

Men, women and children filled the streets of the rebel stronghold, carrying the red, green and black rebel flag and chanting ``The people want the no-fly zone.''

The march interrupted the unusual quiet that persists in the city, where most shops remain closed and fairly few people can be seen in the streets during the day.

Many demonstrators carried French flags and signs in French thanking President Nicolas Sarkozy for his efforts to secure a United Nations Security Council resolution authorising the no-fly zone and strikes on government forces.

``One, two, three, merci Sarkozy,'' protesters chanted as they walked towards the courthouse square that has become the gathering place for demonstrators in the coastal city.

Some people carried signs criticising nations that have taken issue with the no-fly zone and US, British and French strikes on forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi.

``Russia and China, it is better to be with the Libyan people than with the tyrant,'' said one banner in English. One woman held a hand-written sign, also in English, reading ``Please do not stop military operations against Kadhafi.''

``We're asking for more airstrikes, for them to hit his forces harder,'' said 20-year-old Awad Al-Zway, who said the demonstration was also in solidarity with residents in the besieged western towns of Misrata and Zenten.

``We're here specifically to support the no-fly zone,'' said Abdul Salam Musa, a 25-year-old teacher. ``But we want more from the no-fly zone, we want them to protect Misrata and Zenten.''

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/228287/march-in-support-of-no-fly-zone

 

[Valerius]

That article insults cats comparing them to cats. Although a synonym that begins with P might be appropriate.

[One Revelator]

They are already setting up a hundred excuses for the narrative to follow where CNN will say "sorry we supported this gencide like we supported iraq for 7 murdering years"

Not including the Iraq no-fly zones that lasted 10 years before that. How many know that US bombs were dropped DAILY during that timeframe?  The media never bothered to mention this back then.

Remember these excuses?

“Well, yea, it’s wrong, and we did screw up, but now that we started something, WE NEED TO FINISH IT.”

Or

“This is a limited action and we will withdraw as soon as the ELECTIONS take place.”

Or

“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! See, we’re done, sort of.”

Watch for this crap. Brits are already admitting that this will last FOREVER while this whole thing is less than a week old.

The zombies already believe that we’re involved “cuz Kaddafi’s a bayud mayun” even though he was a close ally 6 months ago.

The real battle here will be with the lying tongue-wagging media.

[SavvyRonPaul]

NO GROUND TROOPS? -- 2,200 Marines from 26th MEU deployed to Libya

Did you not see my post from yesterday where McCain was on the early show (CBS) and said how we need to turn the no-fly zone into a no-drive zone?
 
huh? huh? huh?  did ya? did ya?

Sometimes I swear I post something really good and it gets overlooked......

[chrisfromchi]

NO GROUND TROOPS? -- 2,200 Marines from 26th MEU deployed to Libya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKOiQgVSP4E

[shipgeek]

US says Libyan Air Force kaputt.

Libyan air force neutered
A Military Operations news article

24 Mar 11

The RAF's commander of the air operations over Libya, Air Vice Marshal Greg Bagwell, has reported that the Libyan air force "no longer exists as a fighting force."

peaking from Gioia del Colle air base, near Bari in southern Italy, earlier this afternoon, AVM Bagwell said that the Libyan air force had been neutered by the coalition action:

    "We are now applying sustained, unrelenting pressure on the Libyan armed forces. Their air force no longer exists as a fighting force, and its integrated air defence system and command and control networks are severely degraded to the point that we can operate over [Libyan] airspace with impunity," he said.

    "As we continue to enforce the no-fly zone, we are watching over the innocent people of Libya and ensuring that we protect them from attack.

    "We have the Libyan ground forces under constant observation, and we attack them whenever they threaten or attack civilians or population centres."


http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/LibyanAirForceNeutered.htm

How many civilians killed since they started bombing Libya?

[No2NWO]

U.S. Jets Step Up Attacks on Gadhafi’s Troops

Let there be no doubt: it’s full-fledged war over Libya. U.S. planes are now attacking Moammar Gadhafi’s ground forces outside major Libyan cities.

Five days into Operation Odyssey Dawn and — as predicted (cough) — the U.S.-led coalition has moved from grounding Gahdafi’s planes to going after his tanks, trucks and artillery units. “We are putting pressure on Gadhafi’s ground forces that are attacking civilian populations in cities,” Vice Adm. Gerard P. Hueber, chief of staff of the task force conducting the war, told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday afternoon.

Specifically, the ongoing attacks are occurring outside the besieged cities of Ajdabiya in the east and Misurata in the west, where units loyal to Gadhafi are using “tanks, artillery [and] rocket launchers” in heavily populated areas. Until Gadhafi’s forces pull back from those and “other” areas, Heuber said, “that pressure from Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn coalition partners will continue.” In other words, the U.S. is facing a wartime situation above urban areas, where it will be difficult to spare civilian lives during airstrikes predicated on protecting the Libyan people.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/u-s-jets-step-up-attacks-on-gadhafis-troops/

[Kilika]

Where is a big massive image of face palm when you need it! These psychos really are out of control.

[Rebelitarian]

That's the whole idea they will go for broke in 2011 cuz their facade is fading for 2012.

[shipgeek]

Airstrikes hit deep in Libya, targeting arms flow

BENGHAZI, Libya – French airstrikes hit an air base deep inside Libya and NATO ships patrolled the coast to block arms and mercenaries from flowing in to help Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Other coalition bombers struck artillery, tanks and parked helicopters, officials said Thursday.

Libyan state television on Thursday showed blackened and mangled bodies that it said were victims of airstrikes in Tripoli, the capital. Rebels have accused Gadhafi's forces of taking bodies from the morgue and pretending they are civilian casualties.

The French strikes overnight hit a base about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of the Libyan coastline, French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard told reporters in Paris on Thursday without elaborating on the target or possible damage.

In Tripoli, Libyan deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim said that the "military compound at Juffra" was among the targets hit before dawn. Juffra is one of at least two air bases deep in Libya's interior, on main routes that lead from neighboring countries in the Sahara region that have been suppliers of arms and fighters for the Gadhafi.

NATO warships began patrolling Wednesday off Libya's Mediterranean coast in an effort the blockade's commander described as "closing the main front door" to weapons and mercenaries for Gadhafi.

Vice Adm. Rinaldo Veri said the Mediterranean was the most efficient way to get weapons into Libya and that it was impossible to patrol its entire coast. He expected to have enough vessels in place in a few days for effective operations.

Veri said NATO was prepared to send armed forces onto any suspect ships that don't voluntarily submit to inspections.

"If they should find resistance, the use of force is necessary," he said, noting that the Security Council had mandated all means necessary to enforce the embargo.

Coalition bombers planes and ships continued to strike at Gadhafi positions, including artillery, tanks, an ammunition bunker and a small number of helicopters as they sat on an airfield along the coast, a U.S. defense official said Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

More than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean Sea late Wednesday and early Thursday, their targets including Gadhafi's air defense missile sites in Tripoli and south of the capital. Other attacks were launched against an ammunition bunker near Misrata and forces south of Benghazi, the official said.

The U.N. Security Council authorized the embargo and no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians after Gadhafi launched attacks against anti-government protesters who wanted him to leave after 42 years in power. But rebel advances have foundered, and the two sides have been at stalemate in key cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya, the gateway to the opposition's eastern stronghold.

Ajdabiya has been under siege for more than a week, with the rebels holding the city center but facing relentless shelling from government troops positioned on the outskirts.

Residents fleeing the violence said the situation inside the city has deteriorated in recent days. Two airstrikes targeted the area early Thursday, said a rebel, Taha el-Hassadi.

Mohammed Ali, 56, who fled with his family in a station wagon said, "They've cut everything — the electricity, the water. It's getting worse and worse inside."

Government troops also continued barraging the western city of Misrata on Thursday but were forced to roll back their tanks periodically amid coalition airstrikes.

A 42-year-old doctor in the city said shelling had damaged a mosque and a hotel near the hospital.

"When the allies' planes were seen flying in the sky, the shelling stopped and the tanks fled," he said. "We still have to deal with snipers in the main street in Misrata and try to warn people to stay away from it."

___

Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Paris; Pauline Jelinek in Washington and Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya

Awful disgusting!

[shipgeek]

Turkish TV: NATO to command Libya operation
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey — NATO appeared on Thursday to move closer to assuming command of the military operation in Libya when Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying an agreement has been reached.

The alliance needs the approval of all 28 of its members in order to coordinate the operation, and Turkey had set conditions on that role for NATO.

"The coalition that was formed following the Paris meeting will abandon the mission and hand it over entirely to a single command system under NATO," Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying by Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency.

"All of Turkey's concerns, demands on the issue have been met," he said, and NATO has promised to complete the work needed to take over the Libya mission "within one or two days."

Earlier in the day, Turkey's parliament authorized the government to participate in military operations in Libya, including the no-fly zone. Turkey is NATO's only Muslim member.

Turkey's government had insisted that any NATO mission, including the no-fly zone, must be restricted to protecting civilians, enforcing the arms embargo and providing humanitarian aid.

Davutoglu had said Wednesday that his country would not agree to a "framework that goes beyond this." But Turkey also said it would contribute four frigates and one submarine to the NATO naval force that patrolling off Libya's coast to enforce a U.N. arms embargo. Two frigates had reached the Libyan coast while two others were on their way.

In Brussels, NATO officials said the Military Committee — the alliance's highest military body — met Thursday morning in Brussels to review plans to enforce the no-fly zone in Libya. The decision-making North Atlantic Council, consisting of envoys from all 28 member nations, was meeting later Thursday to review them.

It has been meeting for six straight days, but a series of disagreements, including whether NATO should have overall political control over the operation and how aggressive rules of engagement should be, have so far blocked an agreement.

Separately, the 27 European Union heads of government began a two-day summit meeting, also in Brussels. Economic matters appear to be dominating the agenda, but Libya may also be discussed.

Thursday's vote in Turkey's Parliament authorizes the government and military to participate in operations in Libya up to one year, without specifying what kind.

NATO's top military commander, U.S. Adm. James Stavridis, met Turkish military leaders in Ankara on Thursday to discuss Turkey's concerns.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced concern over the campaign and accused Western nations of having what he claimed designs on Libya's oil. He did not name any country. "I wish they would look at Libya with a conscientious eye instead of an eye for oil," he said.

Erdogan also spoke of the possibility of sending peacekeepers to Libya but insisted the Turkish soldiers would not aim guns at fellow Muslims.

"Turkish planes, Turkish soldiers will never be the ones firing bullets and dropping bombs on our brothers in Libya," Erdogan said.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Thursday sought to debunk speculation that the allies were after oil-rich Libya's hydrocarbons.

"People always say that it's oil behind all this — that's not true," Juppe said. "To have consistent, cheap oil, the best thing would have been to change nothing in Libya. It's not oil that pushes us to all this."

Turkey, however, has good ties both with the West and the Muslim world and its warnings reflects concerns by many Muslim countries around the Middle East.

Erdogan also insisted that the entire Libya operation be handled by NATO alone.

The Parliament gave blanket permission to the government to decide on the scope, duration or size of any Turkish military mission for one year. Erdogan's government said it aims for a "multidimensional contribution to international efforts to restore stability and security in Libya."

Ahead of the approval of the mission, hundreds of people, including members of left-wing political parties, protested against the deployment outside the Parliament as well as the U.S. Embassy, where protesters chanted slogans against NATO and Stavridis' visit.

Turkey often said it could serve as a bridge between the West and the Islamic world. Today, its embassy in Tripoli serves as an intermediary for the United States, Britain, Italy and Australia. It has also helped secure the release of five journalists working for the New York Times and Britain's Guardian newspaper.

The seeds of Turkey's friendly ties with Libya was laid during a U.S. arms embargo following Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when Libya provided Turkey with spare parts to operate its U.S.-made jets. Since then, Turkish builders have become a mainstay of foreign business in Libya, from where 25,000 Turkish workers have been evacuated amid the chaos.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7489638.html

[shipgeek]

How many civilians killed in the Libya bombings - this we will never know.
There must not be much left to bomb in Libya. Is Syria next?


26 March 2011 Last updated at 05:22 GMT
Libya crisis: Explosions shake Tripoli

Several large explosions have rocked Libya's capital, Tripoli, early on Saturday, reports say.

A resident told AFP news agency the explosions were in the eastern suburb of Tajoura, which has previously been hit by coalition forces.

The US, UK and France are taking the lead in enforcing a UN-mandated no-fly zone as Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fights an uprising against his rule.

He is said to be arming volunteers to join his forces.

"The district was shaken by three explosions in succession," the resident was quoted as saying.

The blasts followed coalition strikes on Col Gaddafi's tanks and artillery around the eastern town of Ajdabiya.

Rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces are in a stand-off near the town, witnesses say.

Despite the reports of considerable setbacks for pro-Gaddafi forces, fighting has also continued in Misrata in the west where residents reported shelling continued late on Friday.

The White House has announced President Barack Obama will address Americans on Monday evening, explaining his policy and decision-making on Libya.
'Diminishing ability'

US military spokesman Vice Admiral William Gortney said Col Gaddafi had "virtually no air defence" and a "diminishing ability to command and sustain his forces on the ground".

"His air force cannot fly, his warships are staying in port, his ammunitions stores are being destroyed, communications towers are being toppled, his command bunkers rendered useless," he said.

"We've received reports today that he has taken to arming what he calls volunteers to fight the opposition," he added.

"I'm not sure... if they are truly volunteers or not, and I don't know how many of these recruits he's going to get, but I find it interesting that he may now feel it necessary to seek civilian reinforcements."

Western forces began bombing targets last weekend in a bid to enforce a UN resolution that banned the Libyan military from launching air attacks on civilians.

There are three main aspects to the operation: Action to eliminate Col Gaddafi's air force and air defences, an arms embargo and strikes against ground forces which may be in a position to inflict civilian casualties.

Nato is expected to take over the lead of the entire Libya operation from the Americans in the coming days. It has already taken command of enforcing the no-fly zone and arms embargo.

Nato has appointed a Canadian general, Charles Bouchard, to oversee the no-fly zone operation and the arms embargo.

Meanwhile, Qatar became the first Arab state to contribute to the air mission over Libya.

The initial leadership of the operation and the bulk of the logistics have been borne by the US, but President Barack Obama has been insistent that the US should not continue to lead the intervention.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12869147

[shipgeek]

http://www.rense.com/general93/target.htm

Target Israel, Not Libya
By Stephen Lendman
3-25-11
 

On April 9, 1986, Ronald Reagan called Muammar el Gaddafi the "mad dog of the Middle East." Today, after an imposed no-fly zone, war rages to remove him. For decades, he ruled despotically, punishing enemies, rewarding friends. His days may now be numbered. Washington won't quit until he's gone, no matter how many corpses it takes to achieve it.
 
In fact, however, a far greater Middle East menace threatens the entire region, the Israeli war machine based in Jerusalem. Besides illegally occupying Palestine, brutalizing Palestinians daily, persecuting Israeli Arabs, threatening and attacking its neighbors, its longstanding plan calls for dividing and dominating the region.
 
In fact, it's nightmarish vision calls for partitioning Arab nations into small states - balkanizing them along ethnic and sectarian lines as Israeli satellites, controllable satraps. The idea is modeled after the Ottoman Empire's Millet system under which local authorities governed confessional communities with separate ethnic identities.
 
Israel's 1967 Golan seizure followed the plan. So did the 1978 and 1982 Lebanon invasions, using preemptive belligerence against regional states, targeting them to be weakened, fragmented, divided, and reconfigured under Israeli control.
 
However, instead of sanctioning Israel, demanding Gaza's siege end, and imposing no-fly zone protection against regular air and ground attacks, Washington is Israel's paymaster/partner, providing generous funding and arms, supporting its killing machine lawlessly.
 
As a result, Israel is a modern day Sparta, able to mobilize over 600,000 combatants in 72 hours, equipped with nuclear and other state-of-the-art weapons, as well as strong Western backing to do what it pleases. Moreover, accomplishing it involves indoctrinating Israeli youths to be warriors, a process to prepare underage boys and girls for future mandatory service.
 
They're taught to believe force and belligerence are preferred ways to solve political problems. Their education highlights it, including by uniformed soldiers in classrooms. Moreover, teachers, especially principals, are retired career officers, and school walls are adorned with names and photos of fallen heros among their graduates. In addition, field trips for all ages visit military memorials on former battlegrounds.
 
Curricula and textbooks also reflect militarism, from kindergarten through high schools with mandatory programs in all state-run ones called "preparation for the IDF." They feature training, glorifying military heros and conquests, while, at the same time, vilifying Arabs, proselytizing kids to hate them.
 
They learn early and it sticks, disciplining them for later conscription, combat, and a lifetime of military support. In fact, by raising children in a hostile, violent environment, they're conditioned to wage war against anyone called a state enemy, whether or not true.
 
As a result, Palestinians pay dearly under suffocating military occupation, inflicting daily violence, targeted killings, mass arrests, land dispossessions, displacement, torture, severe poverty and unemployment, as well as violation of their basic civil and human rights, notably in Gaza under siege, suffering slow-motion genocide from depravation.
 
In addition, regular incursions and attacks occur, Israel acting with impunity. In America especially, not a harsh word, let alone condemnation, calls for sanctions, isolation, and no-fly zone protection to prevent further Gaza air and ground assaults.
 
As a result, from March 10 - 16 alone, Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinian workers, wounded two others, and destroyed three non-military buildings. Other Gaza farmers, fishermen and civilians were also targeted.
 
In addition, peaceful West Bank demonstrations were attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets. Two international human rights activists were arrested, and 47 separate incursions were conducted in Palestinian communities, resulting in 66 arrests, including six children.
 
In the West Bank, on March 17, with government approval, Israeli settlers unleashed a "day of rage," attacking Palestinians in response to a recent settler family killing, arbitrarily blaming them with no evidence.
 
As a result, Palestinians were attacked with rocks and Molotov cocktails, and a home was firebombed. In addition, four cars and a tractor were burned, another seven cars damaged. Numerous injuries were also reported, and armed settlers and Israeli soldiers uprooted hundreds of olive trees near Bethlehem.
 
On March 14, a Palestinian was stabbed, a shop set ablaze, and cars near Hebron were stoned. On March 20, an 11-year old girl was run over en route to school.
 
Moreover, Israel announced 500 new settlement units and intensified home demolitions in response to the killings, despite no evidence linking them to Palestinians.
 
On March 21, Israeli air attacks again shelled and bombed Gazan civilian sites, wounding 15 civilians, including two women and two children. Dozens of homes, seven stores, several cars, a municipal building, a metal workshop, and a plastic waste recycling facility sustained total, heavy or partial damage.
 
On March 22, more attacks killed four, including two children, wounding 11, including eight children, three seriously. Members of the al-Quds Brigades were also targeted near the Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi mosque in eastern Gaza City, killing four.
 
On March 24, Israeli warplanes conducted two more attacks, targeting a Rafah city training site, causing heavy damage. No deaths or injuries were reported. In addition, according to the SAFA News Agency, air strikes hit a tunnel east of Rafah's Salah Al-Din gate. Four missiles were also fired at a Hamas military site in southern Gaza City, and Israeli attacks destroyed electric lines in several neighborhoods.
 
Israeli radio claimed Gaza launched rocket and mortar shells prompted the response. Islamic Jihad took responsibility, saying it acted "in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli aggression." Hamas says it's committed to a truce provided Israel stops attacking. Otherwise, it maintains its right of self-defense.
 
According to the International Middle East Media Center:
 
"Israeli politicians are said to be considering a further escalation, perhaps resulting in a 'Cast Lead 2.' " Given Washington's war on Libya, besides ongoing ones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, plus numerous Middle East uprisings, an Israeli offensive now seems unlikely. But don't rule it out later at a more opportune time.
 
More War Ahead?
 
Most often, Israel uses real or contrived provocations to unleash violence or wage war. A March 23 Jerusalem bombing might, in fact, have been one if a major assault was planned. The incident at a crowded bus stop killed one, injuring 30 or more others, three seriously. Haaretz reported a likely explosive device "hidden in a bag next to a telephone pole." On March 24, Ma'an News said Israeli police will remain "on high alert," following the attack. An unnamed official claimed "authorities know who was behind" it, the usual suspects for sure.
 
For nearly 44 years, the above incidents and occasional intense conflict highlight daily Occupied Palestine life. It reflects sustained harshness and brutality, but instead of condemning and demanding it stop, Washington generously rewards it, at the same time attacking targets of opportunity like Gaddafi in pursuit of imperial aims.
 
Always, innocent civilians suffer most, including women and children, the main casualties of wars and violence, the hidden victims little discussed, considered, or bothered about in mainstream reports, supporting the worst of imperial slaughter and destruction.
 
As a result, thousands of Palestinians globally endorse a third Intifada, inspired by other regional uprisings for democratic change. In early March a new Facebook page was created supporting it saying, "Palestine will be freed and we will free it."
 
Within days, the page had nearly 140,000 "Likes" toward a one million goal, then maintaining momentum for many more - a global groundswell for ending occupation and democratic change for an oppressed people long denied it. It's coming because popular energy drives it toward fruition, but not easily, quickly, or without more pain and suffering, what Palestinians have long endured.
 
A Final Comment
 
On March 22, Palestinians got more reasons to act after the Knesset passed two discriminatory laws. One called the Acceptance to Communities Bill lets small Galilee and Negev communities maintain racist admissions committees to exclude potential Arab and other unwanted residents from living on Israeli confiscated land.
 
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said passage "will anchor discrimination and separatism in Israeli law," based on vague criteria, including "fitting with the life of the community" or "fitting with the social fabric," meaning no Arabs need apply. Or perhaps single parents, disabled persons, same-sex couples, Mizrachi Jews, or others deemed undesirable.
 
The other is called the Nakba Law, officially the Budget Principles Law (Amendment 39) - Reducing Budgeting Support for Activities Contrary to the Principles of the State, letting Finance Ministry bureaucrats fine municipalities and public institutions for:
 
-- publicly supporting organizations commemorating the Nakba, Israel's Independence Day;
 
-- opposing the term "Jewish and democratic State;" or
 
-- violating State symbols.
 
ACRI said "(t)his bill severely damages freedom of political expression, freedom of artistic expression, and freedom of protest, which are basic rights and are essential to the very existence of a democracy."
 
Of course, Israel isn't a democracy and never was, affording rights solely to Jews, increasingly fewer of them, the more privileged like in America. Others more than ever are on their own sink or swim, the reality major media in both countries downplay or don't report.
 
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
 
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.

 

[TahoeBlue]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

Colonel Gaddafi, has been the leader of Libya since a military coup on 1 September 1969 where he overthrew King Idris of Libya and established the Libyan Arab Republic.[2]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_of_Libya
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During World War II, Idris supported the United Kingdom and brought the Cyrenaican nationalists to fight alongside the Allies against the Axis.
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To the chagrin of Arab nationalists at home and supporters of Pan-Arabism in neighbouring states, Idris maintained close ties with the United Kingdom and the United States, even after the former intervened against Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis.
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On 1 September 1969, while Idris was in Turkey for medical treatment, he was deposed in a coup by a group of Libyan army officers under the leadership of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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Idris died at the Sultan Palace in Dokki, Cairo in 1983, aged 94. He was buried at Jannat al-Baqi, Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Occidental oil - in 1961 won an oil concession from Libya following a major oil discovery in that country, a deal that propelled the growth of “Oxy,” as the firm came to be called, into a major international oil company. Libya nationalized...

http://www.usasurvival.org/occidental.html
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Gore Sr. played a role in a foreign policy debacle that is still unfolding before our eyes -- U.S. involvement in Libya. In 1967 -- three years before Gore Jr. says his father developed a relationship with Occidental -- Gore Sr accompanied Hammer to Libya to dedicate Occidental's oil fields there. According to various sources, Occidental got the oil concessions after millions of dollars in bribes were paid to Libyan officials and middlemen.

This corruption played a role in the 1969 military coup by Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, who turned out to be one of the world's leading sponsors of terrorism against the West. But today, Occidental is trying to get back into Libya, and the Clinton-Gore Administration has been trying to help. On March 26th, in the Washington Post, columnist Jim Hoagland exposed how the administration is laying the groundwork for the normalization of relations with Gadhafi. He said U.S. oil companies were behind it. He didn't name them, but they include Gore's friends at Occidental.

[BaronJ]

English Translation of Gaddafis Last Speech in front of his supporters, Directly adressing the Globalists:

"Protests everywhere are against you! In Asia, Africa, America, Europe, the people are against them! The populations are against you!
Oh People, Those who are against you, are a small group of fascists, sickened, they will fall, their nations will overthrow them!
We will succeed in this historical battle, we will not give up, we will not fear their Firecrackers, we despise their missiles, they are firecrackers, those missiles are fireckrackers, the Libyans are laughing, the libyans disdain,
We will defeat them! With any method! May it be on the short term, we will defeat them, may it be on the long term we will defeat them!
We are ready for the Battle, long or short!
The strongest air defence are the people, the defence is in the people!
Protests in every place on the planet earth support the Libyan people against this non justified oppression, this oppression that is agains the UN charters. This dark, abominable oppression coming from a handful of Fascists, whom history will put in her thrash.
Oh great Nation of Libya, you are living now glorious times, this is the glory, those is the glorious times we are living in now. All nations are with us! We are leading the worldwide Revolution against Imperialism, against Oppression.
And I am saying to you, I don't fear Storms crossing the Lands, nor Planes bringing destruction, I am Resisting, my Home is here, in my Tent and in the Fields,
I am the friend of true Justice, and the builder of (inaudible), I, I am Here, I am Here, I am Here!
"

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

[chris jones]

 Is this guy off the map a bit.
 He became everything he claimed to be against so very long ago.

[Xill]

Gaddafi was trained by the UK military. He is an operative planted there to be used at the right moment.

There just laughing at us with his scripted comments.

[One Revelator]

Gaddafi was trained by the UK military. He is an operative planted there to be used at the right moment.

There just laughing at us with his scripted comments.

There’s also buzz on the web that he was trained at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, TX.  Can’t find solid evidence of this though.

[Dig]

Gaddafi was trained by the UK military. He is an operative planted there to be used at the right moment.

There just laughing at us with his scripted comments.

Gaddafi went rouge from the Eurocrats as did Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Japanese elite, etc. They are pissed because he was supposed to resign by now as were others. The plan was to have like 10 countries controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood by now. Things are moving way too slowly for them.

[chris jones]

Gaddafi went rouge from the Eurocrats as did Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Japanese elite, etc. They are pissed because he was supposed to resign by now as were others. The plan was to have like 10 countries controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood by now. Things are moving way too slowly for them.

Ive felt   there is much more to this than than quelling a rebellion.
Couple of examples hit me,In Past- Cambodia's killing fields,the continuing slaughter in Burma, and presently the continuing murder of demonstrators neighboring countries etc.
              Dafi didn't play the game by their rules!
Off subject, but maby relevant as to elite methods.
    Tell me if I'm off base here, JFK, it seems to me that in order for him to assend to the office of the president he must have nodded a few times for the elites. However once in he revealed his true intentions, thefor the elitists exterminated him. And NO I'm not comparing Dafi  to JFK!!!