LIBYA-Massive news fakery by NATO/Al-Jazeera/Qatar to turn Tripoli into Dresden

[All4truth]

Its hard to say what some of the under pinnings that are going down, I'm sure if I was an Ethiopian I would be wondering.

Yes I would too, maybe making plans to get out of the country would be good, just for a little while anyways.

[Okinawa]

This does not seem to be confirmed and may be part of National Clandestine Service black propaganda operations.

Or maybe they killed him, but they want to wait for a big media event to make a press conference and finalize the fake narrative, like what they did with Bin Laden

Wikipedia no longer refers to Gadaffi's death. Interesting...

[Dig]

National Clandestine Service releases fake Dead photo of Gadhafi

http://i.imgur.com/o6sdV.jpg


I assume its fake

[larsonstdoc]

  The photo is laughable.  Do you think that the red is blood behind his head.  If so where is the entrance wound?

[shipgeek]

This is all very bad news.

Libya is now in the hands of islamic fanatics / islamic brotherhood thanks to the U.S. of A. troops, the U.K., France, and "NATO".

Khadaffy tried to modernize and free Libya - especially women in Libya who were pretty free to live as they liked and not forced to wear niqab, hijab or burqas - now it's all back to islamic obscurantism.

NATO, the E.U.S.S.R. and the U.S. of A. are happy as they will be able to put their hands on Libyan Oil.

Flocks of sheep worldwide will be happy that Libya fell in the hands of the "rebels" (islamic hard liners).

All news channels are manipulated - including AlJazeera - Qatar His Master's (USA) voice.

This is totally sick!!!!

Here come the $billions to build terrorist training camps so that future enemies can be manufactured in the planned blowback.

Africa falls again to the British Empire.

Just as with Lawrence of Arabia, all deals with the 'nationalist' and 'rebel' forces will be discarded and any true revolutionaries will be summarily disposed of.

God save our gracious Queen.

I mean really, WTF? The British Empire has never been more powerful.

Just a matter of time until they continue creating these false 'rebels' in every sovereign country to cause world chaos for true New World Order operations. They plan on making the Rape of Nanking look like a walk in the park. And the fake rebels had nothing to do with the assasination, they used PRECISION STRIKE technology which no rebel has. The Smart Mobs are just cover for their PRECISION STRIKE assassination operations.

[shipgeek]

Aug 21, 2011
White House releases Obama reaction to developments in Libya

    "Tonight, the momentum against the Gadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. The Gadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator.

    "The surest way for the bloodshed to end is simple: Moammar Gadhafi and his regime need to recognize that their rule has come to an end. Gadhafi needs to acknowledge the reality that he no longer controls Libya. He needs to relinquish power once and for all. Meanwhile, the United States has recognized the Transitional National Council as the legitimate governing authority in Libya. At this pivotal and historic time, the TNC should continue to demonstrate the leadership that is necessary to steer the country through a transition by respecting the rights of the people of Libya, avoiding civilian casualties, protecting the institutions of the Libyan state, and pursuing a transition to democracy that is just and inclusive for all of the people of Libya. A season of conflict must lead to one of peace.

    "The future of Libya is now in the hands of the Libyan people. Going forward, the United States will continue to stay in close coordination with the TNC. We will continue to insist that the basic rights of the Libyan people are respected. And we will continue to work with our allies and partners in the international community to protect the people of Libya, and to support a peaceful transition to democracy."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/08/reports-from-libya-two-of-gadhafis-sons-captured/1

             

[shipgeek]

Special Ops: The New Face of War

How do you assure the security of a nation of human beings who consume a disproportionate amount of the world’s resources, habitually live beyond their means and are addicted to all forms of fantasy from Bible-based delusion, to patriotism-based arrogance, to movie special effects that make ordinary human drama seem boring?

What is the most powerful nation in the world with the largest, most expensive, most lethal military in the history of mankind to do when the good times turn bad, the money goes funny and class warfare breaks out on the homefront?

How does modern warfare in a nation-state system that evolved out of feudalism continue to evolve as new communication systems increase? What does modern warfare look like as that nation state system breaks down, to be replaced by a confusing, “globalized” world of power centers and power vacuums?

The answer for the United States seems to be a growing concentration on what is known as Special Operations, which includes Special Forces, Seals and a host of other lethal military forces that emphasize mobility, efficiency, secrecy and unaccountability. Navy Seal Team Six is the showcase unit of US Special Ops warfare; it’s the much-touted force that killed Osama bin Laden in May and on August 6th lost 17 men when their Chinook helicopter was shot down. A total of 38 men were killed in the shoot-down, including pilots, crew and eight Afghans -- plus a dog.

The Seal team was on a mission to aid a Ranger unit trying to capture or kill a Taliban leader. Back in June 2005, a Chinook was similarly shot down, killing 16 special operations soldiers. By now, this kind of focused killing mission by helicopter at night is standard procedure in Afghanistan. Chinooks, I can speak from experience in Vietnam, are loud, lumbering machines that would seem a reasonably vulnerable target for an experienced fighter with a rocket, something the Russians learned. No doubt the Chinooks are accompanied on missions by Apaches and other agile killing machines.

The transition to this kind of secret hunter-killer warfare began with the ascendancy of General Stanley McChrystal to command in Afghanistan following his successes in Iraq at using Special Ops units to identify and kill insurgent leaders. These unaccountable units were described by Bob Woodward as “the secret weapon” of The Surge. They were also called by some “the Salvadoran option,” referring to the death squad aspect of their function. They can arguably be seen as an updated, highly sophisticated Phoenix Program, the notorious US assassination teams employed during the Vietnam War.

This type of “dirty” warfare depends greatly on talent, efficiency and secrecy, all qualities General McChrystal was known for. Effective PR is also an important aspect of sustaining a special operations program. So it’s noteworthy that before he became famous for special operations, as a one star general during the Iraq invasion, McChrystal was the ranking public relations spokesman in Baghdad.

Secrecy keeps the American people in the dark as to what the Special Ops troops are actually doing on the ground; the PR assures homefront citizens are told only what incredible "warriors" Special Ops soldiers are (which they no doubt are) and what sacrifices they are making for our “freedom” here in “the homeland.” Witness any network news show, and you’ll see this formula being fulfilled in spades.

A perfect example of the PR-secrecy gap appeared Friday on the front page of The New York Times in a story about how the CIA is bragging that its controversial drone campaign in Pakistan has for the past year not killed an innocent civilian. Not even one! Meanwhile, reports from Pakistan tell of rockets and bombs from drones hitting schools, restaurants and houses.

Clearly the CIA is being dishonest. Even proponents of the drone program say zero collateral damage is preposterous. What the CIA seems to be doing is playing the old cruel wink’n’nod used in Vietnam that all US killed corpses are the enemy – even if it's an 8-year-old boy next to the corpse of his mother in the kitchen of their home. The real problem, here, is that those questioning this kind of blatant dishonesty become “subversives” in the eyes of the War Party.


read more here:


http://www.truth-out.org/special-ops-new-face-war/1313292868

 

[shipgeek]

Tripoli - watch live

RT on air

http://rt.com/on-air/libya-tripoli-rebels-green-square/

 

[larsonstdoc]

This is all very bad news.

Libya is now in the hands of islamic fanatics / islamic brotherhood thanks to the U.S. of A. troops, the U.K., France, and "NATO".

Khadaffy tried to modernize and free Libya - especially women in Libya who were pretty free to live as they liked and not forced to wear niqab, hijab or burqas - now it's all back to islamic obscurantism.

NATO, the E.U.S.S.R. and the U.S. of A. are happy as they will be able to put their hands on Libyan Oil.

Flocks of sheep worldwide will be happy that Libya fell in the hands of the "rebels" (islamic hard liners).

All news channels are manipulated - including AlJazeera - Qatar His Master's (USA) voice.

This is totally sick!!!!

  I hope the other countries in the region don't fall like dominoes.  I remember when the USA said we had to go to Vietnam so that the other countries around Vietnam wouldn't fall like dominoes to Communism.   Now it is to NATO and the NWO.  

[shipgeek]

I was once in Tripoli. A beautiful safe city where women could live free, drive their own cars, live as they liked, go to work and earn their own money, no particular dress code, all religions tolerated, people had everything.... and a beautiful harbour...

and now Tripoli is being destroyed by NATO bombings and the world is being fed with lies...

and the place will fall into the hands of these islamic fanatics...

....ukkkkk NATO!!!!

[shipgeek]

NATO SLAUGHTER IN TRIPOLI: "Operation Mermaid Dawn". Assault by Al Qaeda Death Squads MUST READ!
by STOP THE WAR IN LIBYA. WE DEMAND IT on Monday, 22 August 2011 at 06:52

Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=277546772259059

 On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Mermaid Dawn” against Libya.

The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded.

The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day.

Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.

Fighting stared again during the night. There were intense firefights. NATO drones and aircraft kept bombing in all directions. NATO helicopters strafed civilians in the streets with machine guns to open the way for the jihadis.

In the evening, a motorcade of official cars carrying top government figures came under attack. The convoy fled to the Hotel Rixos, where the foreign press is based. NATO did not dare to bomb the hotel because they wanted to avoid killing the journalists. Nevertheless the hotel, which is where I am staying, is now under heavy fire.

At 11:30pm, the Health Minister had to announce that the hospitals were full to overflowing. On Sunday evening, there had been 1300 additional dead and 5,000 wounded.

NATO had been charged by the UN Security Council with protecting civilians in Libya. In reality, France and Great Britain have just re-started their colonial massacres.

At 1am, Khamis Qaddafi came to the Rixos Hotel personally to deliver weapons for the defense of the hotel. He then left. There is now heavy fighting all around the hotel.

 

Further proof of the world dictatorship -  As rebel forces in Libya converged on Tripoli on Sunday, American and NATO officials cited an intensification of American aerial surveillance in and around the capital city as a major factor in helping to tilt the balance after months of steady erosion of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's military.   The officials also said that coordination between NATO and the rebels, and among the loosely organized rebel groups themselves, had become more sophisticated and lethal in recent weeks, even though NATO's mandate has been merely to protect civilians, not to take sides in the conflict.

 

The United States is already laying plans for a post-Qaddafi Libya. Jeffrey D. Feltman, an assistant secretary of state, was in Benghazi over the weekend for meetings with the rebels' political leadership about overseeing a stable, democratic transition. A senior administration official said that the United States wanted to reinforce the message of rebel leaders that they seek an inclusive transition that would bring together all the segments of Libyan society.

 

The administration was making arrangements to bring increased medical supplies and other humanitarian aid into Libya.

 

I find this odd because only yesterday it was announced that there is a drug shortage in the US. We don't have enough medicines for the people here, still we can supply other countries? The pharmaceutical companies are not producing drugs to alleviate the shortages. 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/world/africa/22nato.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22

 

Here is another article about the jubilant celebrations in Libya. Has pictures of rebels celebrating killings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/world/africa/23libya.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22

...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.              -Alfred Lord Tennyson, from Ulysses

[shipgeek]

NATO Hands Terrorists Who Killed U.S. Troops Control of Libya

Al-Qaeda gets new home as rebels seize Tripoli

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, August 22, 2011

While U.S. troops are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq in the supposed fight against terrorists, those same terrorists are now being handed control of an entire country, along with its lucrative resources, as a massive NATO bombardment of Tripoli aids the Al-Qaeda backed rebels in their overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi.

Al-Qaeda-backed rebels have now seized most of Tripoli, with pockets of forces loyal to Gaddafi still offering resistance as the Libyan leader vows he will be “with you until the end”. Gaddafi’s sons were seized by rebels while Gaddafi himself has gone into hiding outside the city.

The United States formally recognized the rebel council as the country’s legitimate government last month, despite the fact that the rebel army was admittedly spearheaded by Al-Qaeda terrorists who are supposedly the target of a multi-decade “war on terror” that is now in its tenth year and has cost the U.S. a staggering $5.4 trillion since 9/11.

Shortly after the start of the conflict in March, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the leader of the anti-Gaddafi rebel army,admitted that the rebel ranks include Al-Qaeda terrorists who have killed U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Al-Hasidi described the fighters as “patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists,” adding that “members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader”.

The Telegraph confirmed that Al-Qaeda fighters had joined with anti-Gaddafi rebels in a story entitled, Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side, in which Richard Spencer wrote how, “WikiLeaks cables, independent analysts and reporters have all identified supporters of Islamist causes among the opposition to Col Gaddafi’s regime, particularly in the towns of Benghazi and Dernah.”

Although NATO and the U.S. admitted that “flickers” of Al-Qaeda members had infiltrated rebel ranks, in reality, they were leading the anti-Gaddafi forces in several areas of the country. As the Wall Street Journal reported in a piece entitled, Ex-Mujahedeen Help Lead Libyan Rebels, Al-Qaeda terrorists who worked directly for Bin Laden were tasked with recruiting, training and acting as front line field commanders for the rebel army.

    Abdel Hakim al-Hasady, an influential Islamic preacher and high-school teacher who spent five years at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan, oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 rebel fighters from Darna.

    Mr. Hasady’s field commander on the front lines is Salah al-Barrani, a former fighter from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which was formed in the 1990s by Libyan mujahedeen returning home after helping to drive the Soviets from Afghanistan and dedicated to ousting Mr. Gadhafi from power.

    Sufyan Ben Qumu, a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Laden’s holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in Afghanistan, is training many of the city’s rebel recruits.

    A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Former jihadist Noman Benotman, who renounced his al Qaeda affiliation in 2000, said in an interview with the Washington Times that he estimates 1,000 jihadists are in Libya.

Referring to the fighters as “freelance jihadists”, Benotman said that the men were part of a North African terror cell known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM), and have completely infiltrated the rebel army.

A 2007 West Point report indicated that the Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk area of Libya is a world capital for Al-Qaeda or mujahideen suicide bomber recruitment. Author Webster Tarpley details this intelligence in his excellent analysis piece, The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists who Killed US, NATO Troops in Iraq.

Western intelligence agencies have also utilized their links with Libyan Al-Qaeda cells to target Gaddafi in recent history.

In 2002, French intelligence experts revealed how western intelligence agencies bankrolled a Libyan Al-Qaeda cellcontrolled directly by Osama Bin Laden to hatch a plot to kill Gaddafi that was foiled in March 1996. The cell was led by Anas al-Liby, who was with Bin Laden in Sudan before Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan.

Indeed, it was Gaddafi’s Libya who put out the first Interpol warrant for Bin Laden’s arrest in 1998. Western intelligence agencies blocked the warrant from being pursued, allowing Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to go on and kill more than 200 people in the truck bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Some of the very rebels now being funded, trained, and given embassies by Britain and the U.S. were part of the Al-Qaeda cell that tried to kill Gaddafi on behalf of the United States and Britain 15 years ago.

As a result of the United States’ and NATO’s alliance with Al-Qaeda terrorists, Muslim extremists will now be given a free hand to take control of Libya and handed a sizeable portion of the country’s oil and gold wealth to entrench their dominance and ensure all remnants of the Gaddafi regime are swept away.

Even the establishment media has now been forced to acknowledge that Gaddafi’s absence will create a vacuum in Libya ready and waiting for Al-Qaeda militants to fill the void. ABC’s Good Morning America quizzed Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman on whether developments would allow Al-Qaeda to gain a foothold in the country, a question he was unable to answer.

What is almost certain is that the relatively high living standards of Libyans living in cities like Tripoli will now be eviscerated as NATO powers allow the country to be subsumed by radical extremists as the region itself becomes little more than an outpost for the next geopolitical conquest by globalist forces.

*********************

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nato-hands-terrorists-who-killed-u-s-troops-control-of-libya.html

[shipgeek]

350 Dead, 3 000 Wounded as NATO smashes into the Shores of Tripoli...

lundi 22 août 2011 12:20:14

"Folks, What a Week for War! Nearly Unbearable. And on So Many Fronts. And on So Many Innocents...Unarmed Innocents. And On Children"
Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET– On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Mermaid Dawn” against Libya.

The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded.

The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day.

Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.

MORE ON TRIPOLI SLAUGHTER HERE:  www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26118

[Jordan]

And ...... Seal Team 6 did the whole thing. I'm sure they will make heros out of someone - can't wait to see who it is this time. Al-qaeda maybe?

[TahoeBlue]

http://tempxyp2440ym0wn.blogspot.com/2011/04/china-tests-nepal-loyalty-over-tibet.html

Col Gaddafi wore a picture of Omar al-Mukhtar during a visit to Rome in 2009



For 20 years until his capture, al-Mukhtar was a leading figure of the resistance. He was hanged on September 16, 1931, shortly after his capture in an ambush.

Asked if he wished to say any last words, he replied with a phrase from the Koran: “From Allah we have come, and to Allah we will return.”

In Libya, 28 March is British Evacuation Day, to mark the final departure of British forces in 1970.  Later the same year, the Americans packed up their own airbase too - hoping to stay on good terms with the newly-installed Col Gaddafi to protect their oil interests in Libya. It's a reminder that the main players in the Western coalition have a lot more history there than outsiders realise - but which Libyans themselves do not forget


Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Italian army in the years leading up to World War II and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who attempted to defeat Mukhtar

With the Libyan uprising beginning February 17, 2011, Omar Mukhtar again became a symbol for a united, free Libya and his picture is depicted on various flags and posters of the Free Libya movement.

[notanumber]

Mainstream US media has threatened journalists if they mention "Al Quaeda" or they will be targeted/shot. Also, some of the US Mainstream journalists in the hotel may be undercover intel: CIA/MI6 infiltrating and monitoring the foreign journalists work, they have also been contacting the rebels.


RT - Video Interview with Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya
http://youtu.be/wDZ86eNaKhM

Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is in the hotel in Tripoli where the foreign press have been obliged to stay during the conflict is afraid for his safety and says he's been threatened.

Rebels say they now control most of Tripoli, and have taken Libyan state TV off air. But some reports also suggest that opposition fighters have been looting private houses. Three of Gaddafi's sons are now thought to be in rebel hands. Opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed. There are reports rebels are closing in on Gaddafi's compound, but the whereabouts of the Colonel are unknown. Some rumours suggest Gaddafi may be in talks with South Africa about a possible escape route, despite denials from both sides. And NATO insists it will continue combat air patrols until all government forces surrender. Following a night of chaos in the capital, crowds have been seen in Tripoli's central square waving revolutionary flags.

[masterofsuspense]

This is intense to watch

Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya tells RT that the CNN and Al-Jazeera journalists have been threatening others for telling the truth and not sticking to the NATO lies.

http://youtu.be/wDZ86eNaKhM

[Jordan]

This is intense to watch

Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya tells RT that the CNN and Al-Jazeera journalists have been threatening others for telling the truth and not sticking to the NATO lies.

http://youtu.be/wDZ86eNaKhM

WWWWWWWWWWWOW -- "there not real journalists" intense.

[worcesteradam]

propaganda not working as well anymore

No more Gaddafi propaganda: Rebels force Libyan state TV off the air after storming HQ as loyalist forces stage defiant last stand

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As the world is disposing of it's dictators --- when do we start on the EU Commissioners

The people of Libiya can wave goodbye to their free homes and free healthcare paid for by oil profits now. They have been played, and they have been fooled. This is a simple oil grab and consolidation of Western power in the country. The one world government system is fast approaching.

Do the MOL readers really believe life will improve for the average person in Libya now? The Arab spring has been created by the West for the Western Companies/Government to exploit.

Congrats to NATO for another successful regime change!! They are getting quite good at it!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028664/Libya-No-Gaddafi-propaganda-rebels-force-state-TV-air.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[notanumber]

'CIA, MI6 'journos' in Tripoli Rixos hotel, outside NATO loses ground'

RT - Video Interview
http://youtu.be/cJa8nN7kFyQ

Journalists trapped in a Tripoli hotel say there are heavy explosions close-by, power is down, and there's gunfire outside. Journalist Thierry Meyssan, who's founder and chairman of online newspaper the Voltaire Network is in the Rixos hotel in Tripoli and says NATO forces are doing everything to back up rebels..

[lee51]

This verse in Revelation 13:7 says:

 "And it was given unto him [the beast power--Catholic church] to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations, And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb...."

How else can the Catholic church get everyone to worship her except to subdue the nations first, make everyone miserable with no food, no money, your children dead, etc. and then she takes over. If you want to eat, bow down to her as your god.

Study Revelation along with the book of Daniel and you will find what the future holds.

BTW;  the second beast that arises in Rev 13:11 is the United States of America.  It is the USA that will cause everyone to worship the first beast--Catholic Church. A book to read: "Daniel and Revealtion" by Uriah Smith--written more than a hundred years ago explains these two books of the Bible. These two books tell the future. Very interesting reading and worth looking into....

[notanumber]

http://tarpley.net/2011/08/22/nato-slaughter-in-tripoli/

NATO Slaughter in Tripoli: Operation Siren Signals Assault by Rebels’ Al Qaeda Death Squads

By Thierry Meyssan
http://www.TARPLEY.net
August 21, 2011

Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET– On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Siren” against Libya.

The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded.

The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day.

Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.

Fighting started again during the night. There were intense firefights. NATO drones and aircraft kept bombing in all directions. NATO helicopters strafed civilians in the streets with machine guns to open the way for the jihadis.

In the evening, a motorcade of official cars carrying top government figures came under attack. The convoy fled to the Hotel Rixos, where the foreign press is based. NATO did not dare to bomb the hotel because they wanted to avoid killing the journalists. Nevertheless the hotel, which is where I am staying, is now under heavy fire.

At 11:30pm, the Health Minister had to announce that the hospitals were full to overflowing. On Sunday evening, there had been 1300 additional dead and 5,000 wounded.

NATO had been charged by the UN Security Council with protecting civilians in Libya. In reality, France and Great Britain have just re-started their colonial massacres.

At 1am, Khamis Qaddafi came to the Rixos Hotel personally to deliver weapons for the defense of the hotel. He then left. There is now heavy fighting all around the hotel.

Thierry Meyssan

http://tarpley.net/2011/08/22/nato-slaughter-in-tripoli/

[shipgeek]

This is a very good/reliable source of information about the real situation in Libya

http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya/

no NWO no NATO
this is totally independent and coming from local sources only

[notanumber]

Webster Tarpley on Alex Jones Show today about Libya.

http://tarpley.net/audio/getfile.php?f=20110822-WGT_on_AJS.mp3

[chris jones]

 There is smoke in the air but the elites cash registers are ringing.
 The spoils of war, who gets the dosh. The vultures, globalists are beggining to send in the Gov puppets to cut up the profits and establish their bases.
   I know how intense all of this is, the emotions involved as we look upon this, but I continue to beleive the bottom line. Without profit there would be no war.
    The elitists are securing their empire.
What are elites:Elite (occasionally spelled élite) (Latin, eligere - "to elect") refers to an exceptional and/or privileged group that wields considerable power within its sphere of influence. Depending on the context, this power might be physical, spiritual, intellectual and/or financial.

[notanumber]

http://twitter.com/#!/webstergtarpley

Webster Tarpley--

#NATO's kitchen of lies exposed by #Saif at #Rixos- no #Qaddafi sons ever in hands of terrorists, ALL LIES- ALL NATO STATEMENTS VOID-GO SAIF

#Qaddafi counterattack vs #NATO's #alQaeda armed mobs in #Tripoli now in progress- specter of Suez debacle 1956 hangs over #London, #Paris

#Saif #Qaddafi speech at #Rixos Hotel stuns #AlJazeera #CNN #BBC media whores- #NATO strategy was coup de main assisted by media brainwash

QED: #NATO #AlJazeera hype #OperationMermaidDawn is mass #Brainwash #Gehirnwaesche #BourrageDeCranes #LavaggiodiCervello based on #BigLie

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RT-Video Interview - Mahdi Nazemroaya
http://youtu.be/jNFMWKV0oiI

Government tanks are shelling parts of central Tripoli despite rebels claiming they are in control of most of the Libyan capital. One of Gaddafi's sons is reportedly leading forces towards the city centre. Earlier three of his other sons were said to have been arrested. Heavy fighting has been reported near the Libyan leader's residence. Meanwhile state TV is still airing pro-Gaddafi programmes. Rumours are circulating that Gaddafi may be in talks with South Africa about a possible escape despite denials from both sides. Following a night of chaos in the capital, crowds were seen in the city's central square with people waving revolutionary flags. Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya says the hotel in Tripoli where the foreign press has been obliged to stay during the conflict has been looted.

[notanumber]

Saif al-Islam

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A son of Muammar Gaddafi who rebels said they had captured appeared with cheering supporters in Tripoli, giving a boost to forces loyal to the veteran leader trying to fight off insurgents who say they control most of the capital.

Saif al-Islam, who has been seen as his father's heir apparent, visited the Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying to declare that the government was winning the battle against the rebels.

He took journalists to his father's Bab al-Aziziyah stronghold. Television footage showed Saif pumping his fists in the air, smiling, waving and shaking hands with supporters, as well as holding his arms aloft with each hand making the V for victory sign.

"We broke the back of the rebels. It was a trap. We gave them a hard time, so we are winning," Saif said.

Continued--
http://news.yahoo.com/gaddafi-run-rebels-fight-tripoli-010729502.html

*********Webster Tarpley--
http://twitter.com/#!/webstergtarpley

#NATO attack on #Tripoli like #Early's surprise of #Sheridan at #CedarCreek Oct 1864- #Saif now rallying loyal forces like #Sheridan's ride

[tritonman]

Debka news is reporting:::
Saif al-Islam, the son of Qaddafi, appeared at a Libyan hotel early Tuesday morning despite reports of his capture • Saif arrived in a convoy with armed men at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told reporters that the rebels had been lured into a trap and that pro-Qaddafi forces will crush them • He also said his father remains in Tripoli and he is alive and helping to coordinate the defense of the city

[tritonman]

Gadhafi son resurfaces, free and vowing to fight
http://news.yahoo.com/gadhafi-son-resurfaces-free-vowing-fight-031445311.html
By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press,KARIN LAUB - Associated Press | AP – 17 mins ago
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early Tuesday a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father's loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.

Seif al-Islam's sudden — even surreal — arrival at a Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying threw the situation in the capital into confusion. It underlined the potential for Gadhafi, whose whereabouts remain unknown, to lash back even as his grip on power seemed to be slipping fast.

Rebels say they control the large majority of Tripoli, but on Monday they were still fighting pockets of fierce resistance from regime loyalists firing mortars and anti-aircraft guns. Rebel spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, who was in Tripoli, said the "danger is still there" as long as the elder Gadhafi remains on the run. He warned that pro-Gadhafi brigades are positioned on Tripoli's outskirts and could "be in the middle of the city in half an hour."

The rebel leadership seemed stunned that Seif al-Islam was free. The leadership's spokesman, Sadeq al-Kabir, had no explanation and could only say, "This could be all lies."

He could not confirm whether Seif al-Islam escaped rebel custody, but he did say that another captured Gadhafi son, Mohammed, had escaped the home arrest that rebels had placed him in a day earlier. On Monday, the rebels had said Seif al-Islam was captured, but did not give details on where he was held. The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court — which indicted Seif al-Islam and his father — had confirmed his capture.

Seif al-Islam, with a full beard and wearing an olive-green T-shirt and camouflage trousers, turned up early Tuesday morning at the Rixos hotel, where about 30 foreign journalists are staying in Tripoli under the close watch of regime minders.

Riding in a white limousine amid a convoy of armored SUVs, he took reporters on a drive through parts of the city still under the regime's control, saying, "We are going to hit the hottest spots in Tripoli." Associated Press reporters were among the journalists who saw him and went on the tour.

The tour covered mainly the area that was known to still be under the regime's control — the district around the Rixos hotel and nearby Bab al-Aziziya, Gadhafi's residential compound and military barracks. The tour went through streets full of armed Gadhafi backers, controlled by roadblocks, and into the Gadhafi stronghold neighborhood Bu Slim.

At Bab al-Aziziya, at least a hundred men were waiting in lines for guns being distributed to volunteers to defend the regime. Seif al-Islam shook hands with supporters, beaming and flashing the "V for victory" sign.

"We are here. This is our country. This is our people, and we live here, and we die here," he told AP Television News. "And we are going to win, because the people are with us. That's why were are going to win. Look at them — look at them, in the streets, everywhere!"

When asked about the ICC's claim that he was arrested by rebels, he told reporters: "The ICC can go to hell," and added "We are going to break the backbone of the rebels


Rest of this can be read at the above link...

[Letsbereal]

Raw Video: Gadhafi's Son Seif Free in Tripoli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkmNxeXqXpA

Webster Tarpey: Al-Qaeda, U.S. & NATO Forces Launch 'Operation Mermaid Dawn' 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHtEKNgsJno

Webster Tarpey: Al-Qaeda, U.S. & NATO Forces Launch 'Operation Mermaid Dawn' 2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oufXytwrtww

[ekimdrachir]

Dont believe anything you hear in the "news" about these fake/engineered conflicts.

[Letsbereal]

Libya – NATO Wanted To Kill From Day One – Leonor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVPYN_9J74

Gaddafi Loyalists Know What They are Doing - This discussion took place at Midnight 22 August - Libya time. And I had a brief chat (typing) with Ahmed, he said everything in Tripoli is Good - I protested there have been bombings - and then he disappeared ...

And I'll just add one interesting comment just recieved:

propagandakills221 has made a comment on Mahdi Nazemroaya in Tripoli Afternoon 22 August:
"0043:

More from our correspondent Matthew Price. He says Saif al-Islam appeared buoyed up and confident when he arrived at the hotel. Asked where he believed the balance of power lay, he said: "We have broken the backbone of the rebels. It was a trap. We gave them a hard time, so we are winning".

From BBC website.

[ekimdrachir]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nato-loots-libyan-gold-as-tripoli-falls.html

[shipgeek]

The word is that an order was given by so-called "journalists" to bring down Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan.

[shipgeek]

woww... look at this!!

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-jazeera-and-nato-planning-major-scam.html

Friday, August 19, 2011
AL JAZEERA AND NATO PLANNING A MAJOR SCAM AND MASSACRE EVER

 

[Dig]

woww... look at this!!

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-jazeera-and-nato-planning-major-scam.html

Friday, August 19, 2011
AL JAZEERA AND NATO PLANNING A MAJOR SCAM AND MASSACRE EVER

 

Friday, August 19, 2011
AL JAZEERA AND NATO PLANNING A MAJOR SCAM AND MASSACRE EVER

1. According to reports from reliable sources, the fake scenery of Tripoli is erected in Qatar, in particular Bab al-Aziz and Green Square. Losing, coalition is preparing a grand spectacle. It prepares to destroy the remaining radio and television transmitters in Libya and block Libyan TV on the Internet to suppress truthful information.
At the same time, the U.S. sends more drones.
Those who control the global media and the NATO bloc, are apparently convinced that they were able to deceive everyone and impose their vision of the war in Libya. That is why they believe that the play they will play in the desert of Qatar, with layouts of Tripoli, will be gotten away with.
They will lie to the world, that there is an uprising in Tripoli, that the rebels demand from NATO to send peacemaker troops to destroy the remnants of the troops loyal to Gaddafi himself and his family. And at the same time, NATO will bomb Tripoli and all the cities of Libya, to kill as many as possible in order to destroy the most of the civilian infrastructure and cause a humanitarian catastrophe
If Gaddafi will go out to make a statement and reassure people, a bombing will destroy all who came to the square.
If you do not believe in this scenario, then think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden and Vietnamese village of My Lai and other victims of the countries that belong to NATO.

Translation of video:
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Dear brothers .... it's true dear brothers that the Arab Nation is one nation
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And the colonialists and their collaborators will not succeed in dividing us.
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This nation was created as one nation and will remain one nation.
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colonialists have tried to divide us by creating borders between us, they
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tried to put doubt in our minds
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Colonialism tried this with us in Egypt for 17 years, they tried to break our
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revolution they attempted to create divisions amongst us but our masses
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in Egypt succeeded in destroying these attempts and to continue the
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journey raising the flag of Unity and Arab identity.
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And you LIBYA ... you revolutionary Libya and you revolutionary Libyan
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people have to benefit from our experience and draw lessons from this.
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The colonialists and your enemies will try and divide you, they will use
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psychological warfare on you..... and although they failed trying during
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your great revolution, they will keep trying to chain you as they did in
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the past .... But this nation that I saw Yesterday full of power, resolve
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and determination.
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And these people who are today screaming "one Arab Nation"
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will succeed with Gods help to defeat all imperialist attempts.
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will succeed with Gods help to defeat all imperialist attempts.
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will succeed with Gods help to defeat all imperialist attempts.

 ‎"An anonymous source reports that NATO will try his last card, it would seem that they have reproduced in the studio decors of Tripoli, including Babaziziya accurate and they are going to simulate a power Tripoli after causing a general blackout, cutting electricity and transmissions. The aim is to break the morale of the brave Libyans and fool them , to carry the city and the country into a chaotic state ..."
French: "Une source anonyme rapporte que le nato va tenter sa dérniére carte , il semblerait qu'ils ont reproduit en studio les decors de Tripoli , notamment Babaziziya avec précision et qu'ils vont simuler une prise de Tripoli aprés avoir causé un blackout général en coupant electricité et transmissions .Le but est , casser le moral des braves Libyens et les tromper afin de mener la ville , et , le pays vers un état chaotique ...
 
3.  Video of huge weapons arsenal 'for Libya rebels' seized on Qatar boats

Posted by . at 01:36

[Dig]

LIBYA - what Al Jazeera and the rest of the bullshit media are NOT telling you
 
This is just sickening.

The Libyan people have NOT supported the so-called 'uprising' or the so-called 'rebels'.

NATO have been LOSING the war so far, despite the lies you are told on the mainstream.

So, NATO's new tactic is to target the civilians themselves from the air, while unloading mercenaries and Al Qaeda fighters to kill them on the ground.

NATO has become a terrorist organisation, that is not obeying the rule of law.

Stop looking for the New World Order, you are IN it, and we are all on the side of the bad guys.

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NATO Slaughter Of Libyan Civilians Continues
By JoAnne Moriarty
8-20-11

You all should know that NATO is rabid to take Zawia so that they can stop ALL supplies to Tripoli. Today, Sky news reported a HUGE LIE about how everyone in Zawia is happy about the rebels (NOT EVER) and the rebels are in control of Zawia (not true). They are now openly admitting that they have foreign troops, weapons, etc., in their midst. This particular reporter was overheard discussing this lie and he stated that NATO had informed HIM that they will kill ANYBODY, to include civilians who get in their way of taking over the Libyan Government. NATO sent 17 bombs into civilian neighbor hoods the night before and they sent Apache gunships into the square in Zawia where the civilians were celebrating the routing of the rebel gangs out of their city. They fired on these unarmed citizens with the gunships and killed many, including the brother of Dr. Moussa Ibrahim.

According to our inside sources, Zawia is the rebels attempt at a "last stand", they are in their death dance and NATO is frantic. They have lost Misurata, they have lost Zlitan, they are not in control anywhere in the west now. So, killing civilians is on the table. What I don't understand is how they think they can take Tripoli when 2 million people here are against them? Most of the Tripoli people are armed now, this country is completely against these rebels, more than 90% - How in the hell do they plan to take over? Who will follow them? It will have to be a police state, NATO has become a terrorist organization, with the western news media in complete compliance.

NATO is using AMERICAN made Apache helicopters to kill innocent civilians who are celebrating the rout of the rebel gangs from their city, the crimes are multiple. First by US law no military weapons of any kind can be used by anyone in aggressive acts, so here is US hardware killing unarmed innocent civilians. Second, NATO was NEVER authorized to fire upon unarmed civilians. Third, the UN was never authorized to fire upon unarmed innocent civilians, so violation of both the UN and NATO charters have occurred. Also, when massive numbers of civilian deaths are involved then violation of International laws have been committed but worse than that is the violation of human rights that have occurred.

We have asked these people what they would do if Ghadafi was killed? They state that any chance there might have been in the past for reconciliation with these rebels has completely disappeared. At one time it may have been NATO against Ghadafi but now it is NATO against the civilians. All the Libyans we meet tell us that they are now fighting for their country and their culture. When NATO blows up a power plant, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, when NATO blockades fuel and food and medicine, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, when NATO bombs the civilian neighbor hoods, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, and the list goes on.

We came here on a fact finding mission and have learned things that have shocked us to our core. We are witness to numerous atrocities by NATO and these so called rebels being supported actively, in any way, by NATO. The treatment of Libyan civilians as if they are not human and have no rights, the blatant killing, raping, murdering and bombing of all kinds of civilians and civilian infrastructure removes any thought of legitimacy that NATO or these rebels could ever hope to garner. We stand as witness to the world and we scream to the world STOP THIS INHUMANITY, STOP THE KILLING, STOP THE SEIGE, on the innocent people of Libya. NATO and their illegal minions do not want to accept that 90% of the Libyan people DO NOT WANT THESE rebels in charge of anything. So, what next, kill 90% of the Libyans? Where is their mantra - "we want democracy?" - Now?

The people of the world need to open their eyes and stand up against these daily crimes against humanity and blatant attempt to over throw a sovereign government which is not permitted by an statute anywhere in the world.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1603538/pg1

[Dig]

Breaking reports indicate the people are uprising en masse all right - but AGAINST the rebels.

This seems to have caused NATO to increase their bombing of civilian areas.

For NATO to win this, they are going to have to bomb nearly every person into submission - which is what they plan to do.

And during all this, you are going to be told that the rebels are on the verge of victory. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Last Edited by nexuseditor on 08/21/2011 05:01 AM

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[Dig]

Rebels “Trapped”: Gadhafi Loyalists Fightback, Now Control 75% Of Tripoli
Government Spokesman, Ibrahim Tells Al Jazeera–Reports
http://www.republicreport.com/rebels-trapped-gadhafi-loyalists-using-anti-aircraft-weapons-now-control-75-of-tripoli-government-spokesman-ibrahim-tells-al-jazeera%E2%80%93reports/
23 August 2011 written by Republic Report New York No Comment

New York [RR] TRIPOLI–RepublicReport New York gathered minutes ago, that Moussa Ibrahim, the government spokesperson, claimed Gaddafi forces had control of at least 75 per cent of Tripoli. But rebels said Gaddafi supporters only held about 20 per cent of the city. But Gaddafi loyalists claimed rebels “Trapped” Al Jazeera reported today.

Al-Jazeera said, the tenuous nature of the rebel’s grip on Tripoli has dampened rebel hopes of a swift victory and raised concerns that the city of two million people could be the stage for a protracted armed struggle. Purported capture of Al-Islam was quickly debunked.

[PHOTO: Al-Islam Gaddafi re-merge in Tripoli, claimed Rebels "Trapped" in Tripoli, said capture story was NATO-propaganda]

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reporting from Tripoli said: “While Gaddafi’s forces have withdrawn from most areas of Tripoli, sleeper cells haven’t.” Gaddafi supporters also remained in control of the Rixos hotel, where foreign correspondents have been based throughout the six-month conflict. RepublicReport gathered that Snipers scattered across the city continued to wage resistance while a rebel convoy was ambushed by Gaddafi loyalists using anti-aircraft weapons.

Al-Islam Gaddafi allegedly that NATO blocked Libya internet capability and spread rumors that were untrue. He told Al-Jazeera that rebels were lured into a trap, “we have broken their backbone”, Al-Islam added with confidence. When told about ICCJ, he said, “rubbish”.

An opposition fighter told Al Jazeera, “We haven’t been able to launch an attack we are waiting for more men and heavy weapons.” Elsewhere in the country, the US military said that its warplanes had shot down a scud missile fired from Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, indicating that remnants of Gaddafi’s forces were continuing to resist.

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Gaddafi’s son says rebels ‘trapped’

Questions over extent of opposition forces’ grip as Saif al-Islam re-emerges to rally loyalists in battle for Tripoli.

Saif al-Islam, one of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s most influential sons, who was earlier reported to have been captured by opposition forces, has appeared with supporters on the streets of Tripoli, raising questions over rebel claims about the extent of their control over the Libyan capital.

The head of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) on Monday announced the end of Gaddafi’s decades-long rule after rebel fighters had swept into the heart of Tripoli on Sunday night, prompting scenes of jubiliation.

But Saif’s appearance, hours after the opposition had said he was in its custody, and bouts of fierce fighting in Tripoli on Monday threw doubt on opposition claims that the city had fallen.

“This is our country. We live here and we die here and we are going to win,” Said said.

Television footage showed him waving his fists in the air, smiling and shaking hands with supporters, as well as holding his arms aloft with each hand making the “V” for victory sign.

Saif also spoke to foreign journalists at the Rixos Hotel, telling them that Tripoli was in government hands and that his father, whose whereabouts is still unknown, was safe.

“I am here to refute the lies,” Saif al-Islam said, referring reports of his arrest. “We broke the back of the rebels. It was a trap. We gave them a hard time, so we are winning.”

When asked if his father was safe in Tripoli, Saif responded: “Of course”.

Saif said he did not care about an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, seeking him and his father for crimes against humanity.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, had earlier said the 39-year-old was arrested and in detention, yet it was not clear if he was ever held by rebel forces at all.

Waheed Burshan, an NTC member, told Al Jazeera: “We had confirmation Saif al-Islam was arrested, but we have no idea how he escaped.”

Gaddafi’s eldest son, Mohammad, who was also detained by rebels on Sunday night, is reported to have escaped.

Meanwhile, rebel forces said they arrested Saadi Gaddafi, the beleaguered Libyan leader’s third son. The claim was made even as the whereabouts of other relatives and senior officials remained unknown.

The celebrations that followed the rebels push into central Tripoli on Sunday night, when opposition force took control of the Green Square and claimed victory, gave way to confusion on Monday as they were met by pockets of resistance.

Throughout Monday there was gunfire near Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi’s sprawling compound, in western Tripoli.

Rebels set up checkpoints throughout the neighbourhoods in an attempt to maintain law and order.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reporting from Tripoli said: “While Gaddafi’s forces have withdrawn from most areas of Tripoli, sleeper cells haven’t.”

Gaddafi supporters also remained in control of the Rixos hotel, where foreign correspondents have been based throughout the six-month conflict.

Snipers scattered across the city continued to wage resistance while a rebel convoy was ambushed by Gaddafi loyalists using anti-aircraft weapons.

An opposition fighter told Al Jazeera, “We haven’t been able to launch an attack we are waiting for more men and heavy weapons.”

Elsewhere in the country, the US military said that its warplanes had shot down a scud missile fired from Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, indicating that remnants of Gaddafi’s forces were continuing to resist.

Moussa Ibrahim, the government spokesperson, claimed Gaddafi forces had control of at least 75 per cent of Tripoli. But rebels said Gaddafi supporters only held about 20 per cent of the city.

The tenuous nature of the rebel’s grip on Tripoli has dampened rebel hopes of a swift victory and raised concerns that the city of two million people could be the stage for a protracted armed struggle.

[Dig]

Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be held accountable
Thierry Meyssan
http://www.voltairenet.org/Journalists-who-engage-in-war
Voltaire Network | Tripoli (Libya) | 16 August 2011 


The war propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped.

The current processing of the information on Libya and Syria has marked a turning point in the history of war propaganda in that it uses new ways that have taken the international public by surprise.

Four powers - the United States, France, the UK and Qatar - have combined their technical means to intoxicate the "international community". These are mainly CNN (which, although private, interacts with the Pentagon’s psychological warfare unit), France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera.

These media are being used to falsely attribute to the governments of Libya and Syria crimes they did not commit while covering the crimes that are committed by the secret services of the aforementioned powers and NATO.

We witnessed a similar situation, on a smaller scale, in 2002 when Globovisión broadcast live images of a popular revolution against elected President Hugo Chávez plus images of pro-Chavez activists gunning down protesters. This staged event had made it possible to mask a military coup orchestrated by Washington with the help of Madrid. However, after a genuine popular uprising aborted the coup and reinstated the elected president, legal and journalistic investigations revealed that the revolution filmed by Globovisión was in fact a case of visual trickery and that the Chavistas had never fired on the crowd, but were themselves the victims of snipers armed by the CIA.

We see the same thing happening today, but with a consortium of satellite channels which transmit images of nonexistent events in Libya and Syria. Their aim is to make people believe the majority of Libyans and Syrians want to overthrow their political institutions and that Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad have massacred their own people. On the basis of such media intoxication, NATO attacked Libya and is about to destroy Syria.

Now, after the Second World War, the United Nations General Assembly passed legislation to prohibit and punish such practices.

Resolution 110 of 3 November 1947 regarding "measures to be taken against propaganda and the inciters of a new war," condemns "propaganda which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression. "

Resolution 381 of 17 November 1950 further strengthens this condemnation by condemning the censorship of conflicting information as part of the propaganda against peace.

Finally, Resolution 819 of 11 December 1954 on "the removal of barriers to free exchange of information and ideas," recognizes the responsibility of governments to remove barriers that impede the free exchange of information and ideas.

In so doing, the General Assembly has developed its own doctrine on freedom of expression: it condemned the lies leading to war and upheld the free flow of information and ideas and critical debate as weapons in the service of peace.

Words and, especially, images can be used to prepare the worst crimes. In this case, the intoxication by CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera constitute "crimes against peace." They should be considered as being more serious than the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by NATO in Libya and by Western intelligence agencies in Syria insofar as they precede and make them possible.

Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be tried by International Justice.

Thierry Meyssan