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By John Rosenthal

The uprising in Libya was the realization not of democratic aspirations, but of the longstanding ambitions of Islamic extremists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30564.htm



Libyan Rebels Cage Black Africans in Zoo, Force Feed Them Flags

Video

Libyan rebels humiliate/torture a group of black Africans. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30697.htm



Libya: ''Dawn'' Turns Into Chaos

By Garibov Konstantin

Right now, tribal discords advance to the level of genocide, with some African tribes being slaughtered.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30861.htm



Libya: The forgotten victims of NATO Strikes: Amnesty International Report

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE19/003/2012/en



A Year Later, Libya is Still a Mess

By Daniel Larison

After the West s much-ballyhood intervention, Libya is dominated by a complex tangle of violent militias and the chaos is spilling into neighboring countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30890.htm



Libya s humanitarian catastophe the West doesn t care about because it caused it

Video

Journalist Neil Clark says now regime change has been achieved in Libya the Western powers don t care about the humanitarian catastrophe their intervention has caused and the Western media isn t interested in reporting it.

http://bit.ly/Hvtf6l



Libya: So it was all about oil after all!

Like Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, or Abelard and Eloise, Oil and Money are probably the West's most universal and paradigmatic duo. Their love affair has been going strong for many decades.

http://rt.com/news/libya-all-about-oil-818/



Rights group: NATO underplayed civilian deaths in Libya

NATO air strikes killed 72 civilians in Libya last year, Human Rights Watch said on Monday, accusing the western alliance of failing to acknowledge the scope of collateral damage it caused during the campaign that helped oust Moammar Gadhafi.

http://on.msnbc.com/McYpl6


From Information Clearing House

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In Libya, chaos reigns as militias run wild
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/in-libya-chaos-reigns-as-militias-run-wild.html

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Amnesty Demands Investigation into 'Forgotten Victims' of NATO s Libyan Airstrikes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/19



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By Glenn Greenwald

When the West invokes human rights concerns to justify an attack on a dictator whom it has long tolerated (and often even supported), that is rather compelling evidence that human rights is the packaging for the war, not the goal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30369.htm



Detainees held by Libya rebels still tortured: UN

''The lack of oversight by the central authorities creates an environment conducive to torture and ill-treatment,'' Pillay said. ''My staff have received alarming reports that this is happening in places of detention that they have visited.''

http://www.myantiwar.org/view/235521.html



Libyan detainees tortured to Death

Several people have died after being tortured by militias in Libyan detention centres, human rights group Amnesty International has said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16741937



NATOs' grisly crimes in Libya

It turns out that just like Vietnam and other illegal wars before it, Libya is turning into a major embarrassment for Uncle Sam.

http://bit.ly/wKG8qb


From Information Clearing House

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'Free' Libya shamed by new torture claims
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/free-libya-shamed-by-new-torture-claims.html

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Blowing the whistle on war crimes is a crime, but committing war crimes is fine
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes/blowing-the-whistle-on-war-crimes-is-a-crime-but-committing-war-crimes-is-fine.html



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In Bani Walid vertreibt eine Stadtmiliz die 28.-Mai-Brigade des nationalen Übergangsrates.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36299/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Libya-Libyen/
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By Cynthia McKinney

I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30243.htm



NATO rapped over 'war crimes' in Libya

Following interviews with eyewitnesses and victims of the Libyan war and after examining areas bombarded by NATO fighter jets, the report states that the Western military alliance targeted a number of civilian areas instead of military sites, particularly in the city of Sirte, during its war in the North African country.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221883.html



'The lessons of Libya: Chaos is no surprise'

Throughout history, military attacks on sovereign nations have always meant death, destruction and chaos which don t end once invasion is complete. Look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, even World War II and the Cold War.

http://rt.com/news/libya-chaos-us-oil-989/



SAS On Ground During Libya ''Crisis''

By BBC

Newsnight has learned that British soldiers were on the ground in Libya, alongside the anti-Gaddafi forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30302.htm



Nato accused of war crimes in Libya

New report criticises Western forces for bombing civilian targets in Sirte during conflict.

http://ind.pn/wdWxEK


From Information Clearing House



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By Glen Ford

'NATO carried out a plan designed for no other purpose than to hide the killing of civilians, to methodically suppress all evidence of war crimes.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30048.htm



Firehose Of Your Tax Money Gushes to Libya

So, how is that violent liberation working out for 'ya?

By Tom H. Hastings

After wasting that $1.1 billion+ on violently getting rid of Gadhaffi, the US is going to pay untold $ millions to buy up weapons from the insurgents. You can t make up stuff like this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30069.htm



Al-Qaida figures said infiltrating Libya

Several senior al-Qaida figures have made their way to Libya, raising fears North Africa could become a new mujahedin center.

http://bit.ly/vAcJKT



Libyan society falling apart without anti-Gaddafi glue

As the immediate post-revolutionary excitement fades, the different factions of the former rebels are turning on each other in what may become a competition for power.

http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-militia-society-unity-893/



US-NATO war crimes in Libya

A report released last week by Middle East human rights groups presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy ''rebel'' forces during last years' war, which brought down the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/pers-j23.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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'From what you have gathered on the ground, it appears that innocent civilians may have been killed or injured, despite all the care and precision,' said Oana Lungescu, a spokeswoman for NATO headquarters in Brussels. 'We deeply regret any loss of life.'

http://bit.ly/tpsFoB



In Strikes on Libya by NATO, an Unspoken Civilian Toll

NATO s seven-month air campaign in Libya, hailed by the alliance and many Libyans for blunting a lethal crackdown by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and helping to push him from power, came with an unrecognized toll: scores of civilian casualties the alliance has long refused to acknowledge or investigate.

http://nyti.ms/sQPNrI



Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj to sue UK government

A Libyan military commander has started legal action against the UK government, which he claims was complicit in his illegal rendition and torture.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16244210


From Information Clearing House



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Anti-Gaddafists are carving up power and Libya s capital of Tripoli is already seeing clashes as the rebels are fighting for the local airport.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/12/62092662.html



Frustration threatens to unleash second Libyan 'revolution'

The young 'revolutionaries' who fought the Gadhafi regime for control of Libya are far from content.

http://bit.ly/tCCKv5



Concerns over Gaddafi s death: 'Suspicions of war crimes'

The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by fighters in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court [ICC] has said.

http://bit.ly/taaQ7d



Anatomy of a NATO War Crime

By Franklin Lamb

An honorable family, a peaceful and welcoming town, a devastated country, and a shocked and angry international community demand justice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30024.htm


From Information Clearing House



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From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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The Killing of Blacks in Libya and the Rise of the African Mercenary

Since the revolutionaries defeated, and then killed, Muammar Gaddafi, 'dark-skinned' Africans from outside traditional North Africa have seen hell.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111170170.html



This Was Always a Civil War, and the Victors are not Merciful

By Patrick Cockburn

The National Transitional Council, whose control is largely theoretical, is not in a position to stop this purge because many of its members are themselves frightened of being accused of links with the old regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29808.htm



More questions than answers about NATO s Libya role

The reasons and the consequences behind NATO s bombing on the Libyan town of Majer still remain unclear three months on. Deutsche Welle visited the scene of one of the darkest episodes in Libya s war.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15548186,00.html



Libya leaders acknowledge abuse of prisoners

The acknowledgment comes a day after the U.N. released report a detailing alleged torture and ill treatment in lockups controlled by the forces that overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

http://news.yahoo.com/libya-leaders-acknowledge-abuse-prisoners-124133411.html



Thousands of prisoners in Libya denied legal process - UN

Libyan 'revolutionaries' are holding an estimated 7000 prisoners who have no access to legal process because police and the courts are not functioning, according to a United Nations report.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/92460/thousands-of-prisoners-in-libya-denied-legal-process-un



Islamists Continue Program of Ethnic and Ideological Cleansing

By Gerald A. Perreira

What is coming our way will be punishment for such a colossal betrayal. And sadly, we will all suffer for their sins.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29864.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Franklin Lamb

The 'new Libya' has entered its own 'Terror' which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as 'disappearance squads'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29695.htm



Bomb, Build, Benefit: UK Joins Gold Rush to Patch Up War-torn Libya

By RT

The countries that bombed the oil-rich country are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29687.htm



Who Said Gaddafi Had To Go?

By Hugh Roberts

What if anything has Libya got in exchange for all the death and destruction that have been visited on it over the past seven and a half months?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29718.htm



NATO Countries May Face War Crimes Inquiry

Alliance blamed for civilian deaths: Some NATO members are worried that their organization may be investigated by the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor said allegations of crimes committed by NATO in Libya would be examined 'impartially and independently,'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29720.htm

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Libya, The Real Story
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/libya-the-real-story.html

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Gaddafi s exit may increase threat

Independent Institute
by Charles V. Pena

11/08/11

[W]hile the world may be a better place without Gadhafi, it may not be a safer place. In fact, it may have gotten more dangerous...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3181


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

11/02/11

NATO s 'victory? in Libya has sown many seeds of possible future calamity. But none is fraught with as much danger as providing a new 'war on the cheap' model for Western nations that have fallen on hard economic times...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3179


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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