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Reports of War Crimes as Tripoli Fighting Continues

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Posted on Aug 25, 2011
AP / Francois Mori

A Libyan rebel, left, handcuffs captured Gadhafi loyalists in Tripoli, Libya.

Libyan rebels control most of Tripoli, yet fighting continues in the capital amid reports of possible war crimes by both sides. One doctor told a BBC reporter that some rebel bodies delivered to his hospital had bullet holes in the back of their heads and wounds that indicated torture.

The seaside town of Sirte appears to be the scene of the next battle. Moammar Gadhafi released a message from hiding urging Libyans to defy “those who rely on NATO.”  —PZS

BBC:

Dr Hoez Zaitan, a British medic working at the hospital, said about half the bodies had bullet wounds to the back of the head while others had disfiguring injuries to their limbs and hands.

He said the bodies had been examined for possible evidence to be used at a war crimes tribunal.

Meanwhile, the bodies of at least a dozen pro-Gaddafi fighters have been found on a roundabout in the centre of Tripoli, two of whom had their hands tied behind their backs.

There were reports that one body had an intravenous drip in the arm and that others were badly burned.

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By truthdigurhumanitarianinterventionkillerscum, August 28, 2011 at 7:43 am Link to this comment
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Where’s our jolly killer cheerleaders Chris Hedges and Juan Cole now?

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By blogdog, August 27, 2011 at 1:06 am Link to this comment

RE: “...there is anarchy, there is chaos. What was this exercise all about?”

exactly that - the makings of a failed state - NATO’s mission: fail self-
determinant states - more easily brought under IMF domination - all in service to
the global finance oligarchy

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By A Khokar, August 27, 2011 at 1:02 am Link to this comment

Libya: military assets worth billions are destroyed by NATO while supporting the rebel instigated to advance toward Tripoli to evict Ghadafi.

It’s all good news for western Arms industry; plenty of arms sale orders expected to rearm Libya.

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By A Khokar, August 27, 2011 at 12:53 am Link to this comment

One oppressor Ghadafi moves out; other team of oppressors moves in; every single military asset that once Ghadafi procured is either eliminated or destroyed; Libyan in thousand are killed; one who are alive have got their hands on each other’s throat; there is anarchy, there is chaos.

What was this exercise all about?

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By A Khokar, August 27, 2011 at 12:45 am Link to this comment

Where is Gaddafi?

Who would know better than the truthdig readers as how to read the mind of pentagon and ascertain the where about of Ghadafi?

It may look bit cynical at this stage but Ghadafi happens to be a good tool in western hands to exploit the situ and to bring this region in US fold.

So expect a rerun of OBL Abbotabad episode this time for Ghadafi too—- to turn him into victory trophy but:
He disappears and will emerge from the land, where US and NATO Plan to attack next

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By Cliff Carson, August 26, 2011 at 1:11 pm Link to this comment

I can’t think of any “freeing” of a people from their oppressors done by any of these mini wars since WWII, that hasn’t resulted from demonetization of “the despot”.  And none of these mini Wars needed to have happened.  Except for one reason - to help provide profit for the War Industry.  Remember that when we start the next “Liberation” or “Protection”.

Remember the Serbian wars?  The hundreds of thousands murdered by the Serbs lying in mass burial plots?  As I remember a British Medical team went there after the war and looked almost for a year for those “mass” graves.  They finally quit in protest that the representation was bogus having found only one “Mass” grave sight and it held less than 2,000 possible victims.  Problem was those bodies could not be identified as having been killed by the Serbians or the Albanian Drug Lords who were the leaders of the other side of the civil war.

It might be worthwhile to read about the sacrifice of the Serbian people to help downed U S Pilots during WWII.  The 2007 book “The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II”, by author Gregory A. Freeman. In his book, he describes it as one of the greatest rescue stories ever told. It tells the story of how the airmen were downed in a country they knew nothing about, and how the Serbian villagers were willing to sacrifice their own lives to save the lives of the air crews.  Five hundred twelve U S airmen were saved by these Serbs and Americans during that daring WWII rescue.

During the Clinton Administration the American people turned their back on those Serbs who fought and died for the Allies and saved our flyers.  Serbian Villagers accepted death by firing squad from the Germans rather than reveal where our airmen were.

Years later our Government would abandon those people.  Instead of siding with the Serbian people who died for us in WWII, our Government chose instead to start a “conflict to save civilians” (Sound familiar?).  Clinton would side against those same Serbian peoples and destroy their country and their heritage.  Today Serbia is no longer Serbia. 

But in the most crass action possibly ever, the United States built a Memorial in 2009 recognizing the heroics of the Serbians who died and struggled to help America, when it counted.  This tribute after we had destroyed their country and their heritage in the 90’s?

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By TDoff, August 26, 2011 at 8:51 am Link to this comment

OMG! Really!? War crimes in the middle of a war?

BTW, all that has to be done to decrease the number of folks getting shot in the back of the head, is convince people to run toward guns being fired at them, instead of away from them.

Good luck with that.

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By SarcastiCanuck, August 26, 2011 at 6:24 am Link to this comment
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My god,summary executions in the middle of a war zone.Never heard of that happening before…What I always wonder though,is how many of them deserved it for thier own sins.

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By joell, August 26, 2011 at 4:13 am Link to this comment

BBC…“Libyan rebels control most of Tripol”

http://www.mathaba.net…As the Internet has bounced back for the moment after some days off-line, a picture very far removed from what NATO and world media would like to claim, is emerging.

I don’t know   which version is   correct. What I   do know is that some of the reports,  photos and   video published   by   the BBC and many others   gives   propaganda a   bad name.

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By blogdog, August 25, 2011 at 9:15 pm Link to this comment

NATO are the world’s premiere war criminals at this point in time - to get this
invasion force fro the sea to the city, they carpet bombed and strafed their way
through thousands of civilians - North Atlantic Terror for the Oligarchs

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