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The NATO War on Libya

 

Canada's dirty role in Libyan war

Stephen Harper's "New Canada" creates a "New Libya"

Canadian fighter-bomber jet takes off for mission against Libya

Canadian firm gave military drones to Libyan militants

Illegal violation of UN Resolution 1973 happened one month ago, but we weren't told until after the occupation of Tripoli.

 

"They bombed and therefore they shall reap"

Canada bombed Libyans, and now they owe "us:"

Who will get the prizes? The NTC has already said it will reward the countries that bombed Col. Gadhafi’s forces. “We don’t have a problem with Western countries like Italians, French and U.K. companies,” Abdeljalil Mayouf, a spokesman for the rebel oil company Agogco, was quoted by Reuters as saying. “But we may have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil.”

 

Canada contributed a disproportionate amount to Libya air strikes: sources

 

 

Baird signs bomb destined for Libya:

"Free Libya. Democracy."

Free Libya. Democracy

 

Libya transition 'won't be perfect,' Baird cautions

"In keeping with a long-held air force tradition, Baird signed a Canadian bomb destined for Gadhafi's infrastructure with the message: "Free Libya. Democracy."

Someone else had already written another message on the same bomb: "This postal service don't strike."

 

 

85 Libyans experience democracy

Libyan officials claim 85 dead in Nato airstrike

 

 

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Libya: children killed in Nato air strike on Zlitan

 

 

 

Is this what "protecting civilians" means?

 

 

NATO ignores Libyan refugees cries for help

Dozens found dead on Libyan refugee boat

 

 

What was that you said about protecting civilians?

 

BBC: Africans Fleeing NATO bombs in Libya Found Dead on Italian Coast

 

 

More NATO War Crimes Day-by-Day

 

UN official "deplores" NATO attack on Libyan TV

NATO denies second round of civilian killings in Tripoli

NATO abandons denial, admits to Libya attack that killed 15

 

Meanwhile, NATO hides from the truth

 

Amnesty questions claim that Gaddafi ordered rape as weapon of war

South Africa condemns NATO war on Libya

 

Libyan opposition fractures one day after Canada's John Baird recognizes them

Physicians are taught "First, Do No Harm." Why has Canada ignored this maxim?

 

Canada's Mission in Libya Extended

Baird also announced that the Canadian government is officially recognizing the National Transitional Council of Libya as the legitimate representative of Libyan citizens.

 

Libya's Ragtag Rebels

Members of their Transitional National Council (TNC) in Benghazi last month detained their military leader, General Abdel Fatah Younes, on suspicion of treachery, lured him away from his bodyguards and murdered him. This week the head of the TNC, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, sacked his whole government on the grounds that some were complicit in the killing.

 

 

At Last! The Head of Ghad ... General Younis

"It is surely one of the great strategic screw-ups in the history of war and intelligence analysis. In March, after the second UN Security Council resolution used by NATO to launch its bombing campaign, the predictions were that Tripoli and thus Ghadafi would fall within two or three weeks.  Right and left alike, though not yrs truly, said it was a sure thing.

[...]

The same day this news of Younis’s killing came, Britain recognized the rebels at the legitimate government of Libya and gave them the okay to take over Libyan government facilities in London.  There seems to be civil war  in  London, since foreign secretary William Hague had come off his hardline stance against negotiations with Tripoli. By way of thank you, as his men pumped  bullets into Younis, Jalil swiftly requested the $25 billion in Libyan government funds, held by NATO powers, which if turned over, -- which I strongly doubt -- will no doubt enter many a private rebel account,  not to mention private NATO accounts – which aim was evident from the start, when Benghazi opened a “central Libyan bank.”

 

 

 

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Is this the face of "humanitarian intervention?"

NATO strike on Libya

See David Jacobs' 2008 Presentation on Canada's "Humanitarian Intervention" and the "Responsibility to Protect":

Part 1

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Poster

 

Selected articles on NATO's attack on Libya

 

NATO's Libya generals should be hauled to court, says Dennis Kucinich

Murray Dobbin
Libya: The latest product in Canada's ugly war assembly line

Libya, Canada's Other Ugly War

 

African Leaders Demand Halt to NATO Bombing Campaign in Libya

 

Cost of Libya mission will be $80-85 million by September

 

Other New Articles

Libya, Obama and the War Powers Act: Desperately Seeking Legitimacy - By Ralph Nader

 

Previous Articles

 

This isn't regime change but - and this is a very big but: Hillary Clinton demands Gaddafi step down

Libya: Britain's £1bn war

NATO bombs docked ships in broadest strike on Libyan navy

Libya Rebels: NATO Air Strike Wounds 16 Near Ajdabiyah

Libya causing cuts in training, other programs

Why I’m suing the Obama administration over Libya

Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio late March

Obama's Libya Defense - Making Bush's Lawyers Look Smart

Eisenhower's worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs - Britain faces no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defence exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it

 

Christian Science Monitor -

The Gay Girl in Damascus hoax, 'mass rape' in Libya, and press credulity

 

 

TIME TO ACT TO END THE ATTACKS ON LIBYA

War Powers Act Doesn't Apply for Libya, Obama Says

Nato air strike kills Misrata rebels, says doctor

Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO

US intel No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya

Oil company waits for Gadhafi to be gone

U.S. Mayors To Push For First Anti-War Resolution Since Vietnam

Headed to the beach? Heads up for an invasion force - Marine Corps practicing amphibious landings across U.S. coast

 

 

NATO’s Libya 'hope' strategy is bombing - by Ret. Gen. LEWIS MacKENZIE

The Wrong Intervention - by Michael Walzer


NATO: We are going to kill Gaddafi

NATO Chief grilled on Russia Today

 

Pentagon Memo: Costs of Libyan War Soaring

NATO wants to corral more countries into its illegal war

U.K., Italy, Qatar, and Kuwait to loan £800 million pounds to Libyan rebels - no strings attached?

6 in 10 Americans Now Oppose Obama's War in Libya

 

Eyeing broader influence, gas-rich Qatar bets big on Libya - "To get an idea of who might wield influence in post-civil war Libya, take a look at the flags flying in the rebel-held east of the country.

Outside the courthouse in Benghazi — rebel headquarters and symbolic heart of the uprising against the 41-year rule of leader Moammar Gadhafi — fly the flags of France, Great Britain, the United States, the European Union, NATO. There's one other flag, too: Qatar's."

 

Kucinich to Colleagues: We Must Defend the Constitution of the United States

 

Libya: Pick one -- surrender or starvation

 

Armed Westerners in Libya Working for Arab Govts?

Civilian casualties in Libya are a very real thing

Debate over Libya "intervention" on Jeremy Scahill show

Libya: a Deafening Silence: Escalation in yet another Bloody NATO War

Time to rethink Canadian involvement in ill-fated Libyan venture - Bombing Civilians to Protect them from Bombing

 

Canada drops 240 'smart' bombs on Libya, won't reveal cost of mission

How can Osama bin Laden ever die? "In all the annals of the savage wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this hasn't happened before -- a former United States Congresswoman reporting right from the Inferno on the war crimes by the western powers against the hapless peoples of the Muslim Middle East. Cynthia McKinney happened to be in Tripoli when the NATO aircraft carried out their heaviest bombing on the Libyan capital in the 2-month long war."


NATO: A Feast of Blood

Libyan “Humanitarian” War Creates Humanitarian Crisis — Glen Ford

Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members by Cynthia McKinney / May 28th, 2011


Call for Attacks on Libyan Infrastructure Provides Glimpse of NATO's Real Motives

What's really happening in Libya: Or, how much bull will people swallow?

Nuclear-powered Carrier U.S.S. George H.W. Bush and NATO strike group to bring freedom to Libya

US Rejects Libya Ceasefire, Vows War Will Continue

Helicopter gunships to join Libya air war - Fearsome helicopter gunships, able to hunt and kill at close quarters at night and over battle-scarred cities, will significantly escalate the air war in Libya.

Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey

Libya: African Leaders Urge Nato to Stop Airstrikes

Libyan mission could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, retired colonel says


US general: Libya rebel army are civilians under NATO protection

An Open Letter concerning the Crisis in Libya
by the National Conference of Black Lawyers

Libyan Rebel Leader Rejects Truce Offer: Hadi Shalluf of the Justice and Democracy Party of Libya says the only thing acceptable to the opposition is for Gadhafi to face the ICC

Libyan military spokesman killed in NATO raid: Colonel Milad Hussein al-Fiqhi, spokesman of the Libyan forces led by Muammar Gaddafi, was killed Sunday in a NATO raid that targeted an intelligence building in the capital Tripoli, Al Arabiya news channel reported

"Bomb Everything in Libya": Pirates of the Mediterranean 'Up the ante'
The rest of the BBC's coverage is without exception the Empire's view of events, there is not a single article on the BBC's Website that questions Operation Odyssey Dawn and the reasons for the invasion. Just as with Nato and its governments, it is an a priori assumption made by the BBC that every act of the Empire is done for humanitarian reasons or at the very least, the right reasons.

ANALYSIS: Sarkozy's Libya adventure doesn't stop home front losses

Attack on Libya a boon for the merchants of death
"This is turning into the best shop window for competing aircraft for years. More even than in Iraq in 2003," a prominent defense analyst told Reuters.

At Deadline, U.S. Seeks to Continue War in Libya

Qatari military advisers on the ground training Libyan rebels

Frenchman dies of gunshot wound in Benghazi

Rebel city denies al-Qaida links

NATO targets Gaddafi's location again
"NATO attacks on Tripoli have spiked this week since a spokesman said allies had entered the second phase of the campaign."

McCain: Kill Gadaffi

US Lawmakers Cheer Latest NATO Attacks on Libya

Trade unions call for end to war on Libya
The UK's two biggest unions--Unite and Unison--and the Scottish TUC call on the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the air attacks on Libya.

NATO's choice of 'targets' is 'in line' with policy, says Cameron

Airstrike kills Gadhafi son, but leader alive

NATO Bombs Disabled Children's School in Libya

Libya's Gaddafi trains volunteer army to fight NATO

Gates: Gadhafi buildings ‘legitimate targets’

Gates, British counterpart: Gadhafi´s HQ a valid target
Alliance ‘not targeting’ Libyan leader, they say


John McCain calls for the assassination of Gaddafi

 

John McCain meets with opposition leaders in Bengazi

 

Gates: U.S. to use Predator drones in Libya

 

Obama OKs use of armed drone aircraft in Libya

 


Politicians Must Decide Whether Canada Sends More Planes, General Says

 

 

 

Did Obama avert a bloodbath in Libya?
Panicking over a dubious threat

April 03, 2011 |By Steve Chapman

Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011, attacking Libya.

The War In Libya: Race, 'Humanitarianism' And the Media - by Maximilian Forte


The Use of Force Against Libya: Another Illegal Use of Force

Mission regime change
By Pepe Escobar

So much for the original UN mandate. So much for a real ceasefire. The ''enlightened'' West and its coalition of the semi-willing does not do ceasefires, although the BRICS nations - top emerging powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have officially condemned the bombing and called for a much-needed reform of the UN Security council.

 

We're not being told the truth on Libya
By Johann Hari

David Cameron's Gift of War and Racism, to Them and Us
By John Pilger

Venezuela; not another Libya

NATO Fears War without End in Libya

 

 

The haze of humanitarian imperialism
By George F. Will

The shady men backed by the West to displace Gaddafi
By Patrick Cockburn

 

 

Libya: Politics Of Humanitarian Intervention
By Mahmood Mamdani

Do You Smell Fish?
Heart Warming Massacres

By Linh Dinh

Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west

By Tariq Ali

 

 

 

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Most Americans don't want military intervention in Libya

 

Libya: NATO's African War - The Role of US Africa Command


10 Reasons to say no to western intervention in Libya

 

First Blood: American Missiles Rain Down on Libya

 

No end of Western hypocrisy in Libya

Just Like Bush
What’s the difference between Obama’s Libyan war and neoconservatism?

The New Republic


Lies, Damn Lies, and Presidential Statements

By Lee Wrights

 

The US-Saudi Libya deal

By Pepe Escobar

Source: Global Research