If it's in this shape, I think that means it never exploded. I was wondering how many of these at least 63 little guys detonated at all, given there seemed to be no deaths or even injuries in the residential area targeted. There was at least the one that was a dud, and I thought I saw a photo of at least two in the same frame.
I was going to look at the available pictures again sometime, or some reports, but stumbled across this first: a video by UNICEF, posted June 6. I found the screen capture below interesting - fourteen apparent dud bomblets displayed amongs other military artifacts in a downtown bazaar. That would suggest a failure rate of somewhere just under 25% if the number was 63.
Did any of these things actually blow up, I wonder, or was no live fire, no death, part of the psyop code of ethics? It sure wouldn't be on the brutal government attack agenda, to do something so stupid just to get caught and kill no one in the process anyway, in the attack or after.
Update June 19: There are now some questions over the research supporting no Libya link to the MAT-120, at least, and related issues. I'll try to report on this once I've gotten a clearer view. One helpful new source is this follow-up from C.J. Chivers, the New York Times reporter who first ran with the story. He cites reports before his arrival early on April 14, and bursts visible as he sailed in as consistent with (but not proof of) more cluster bombs. He saw the bomblets starting that first day, and late that night/early on the morning of the 15th, he heard several detonating with "distinct sounds — a densely compressed set of crunching, rolling explosions in a small area." Plus there were the other witnesses who said they saw such detonations.
So really this line of questioning probably isn't worth much. But the image was interesting, and for what it's worth, there's a small thought.
36 containers of cluster bombs,
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NATO cluster bomb victim in Nis
Wreaths were laid at memorials Saturday as a tribute paid to the victims of the 1999 NATO bombing in the city of Nis, southern Serbia, where 56 people were killed and over 200 were injured in 78 days of NATO air raids.
Chivers resurrected another cluster bomb mystery only recently - a hitherto unknown type of them. Seems extraordinary that a country which seems to import everything except oil had access to an unknown variant.
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The original posts by Chivers were here and here from early Feb 2012
southern Serbia, where 56 people were killed and over 200 were injured in 78 days of NATO air raids
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memorials Saturday as a tribute paid to the victims of the 1999 NATO bombing in the city of Nis pipechn this one is shaping up as a sickening complex of barbarity and deceit.
ReplyDeleteJune 10, 2011 When high-explosive munitions are fired and explode, they do not vanish. They are reduced to fragments and debris, which can be collected, inventoried, examined and checked against many reference materials.
ReplyDeleteExpended munitions also leave behind other potential clues, including craters where munitions have struck or shrapnel within victims who have been hit.
The problem in this case was not finding the debris.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/following-up-part-i-battlefield-refuse-social-media-and-qaddafis-cluster-bombs/?_r=0
April 18, 2011 The NYTimes reporter, CJ Chivers was able to examine and photograph remnants of three mortars fired last week at Misurata, each filled with twenty-one “submunitions”, i.e. smaller bombs designed to kill people and penetrate armor.
http://thebrokenelbow.com/category/cluster-bombs/
Cluster munitions were also fired in the city on 14 April 2011, where they landed
near the Misrata hospital.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=214681098543205&set=vb.213284468697531&type=3&theater
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Al Hikma Hospital
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[ near to ismael darrat house]
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Deleteclearly dr ali darrat misrata
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/05/qasr-ben-ghashir-alleged-victims.html
Alt: Al-Raed/Raid/
الرعيض
[?] brothers, Misrata
The name given in a Gaddafi loyalist copy of the Al-Darrat arrest videos.
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with the help of Al-Naseem icecream Factory owned by Raiedha family clan.
Scenes of destruction done by Gaddafi's forces in Misurata -Qasr Ahmad area
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQrt0eDAT4g
There is a port in the neighbouring town of Qasr Ahmad. Misrata the seat of many national companies such as the Libyan Ports Company, Libyan Iron and Steel Company, the Libyan publishing, distribution and Advertising Company.
Besides that it has branches of public and private sector banks and one locally and privately owned bank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrata
January 2011: Containers full of weapons, ammunition and explosives and around 1000 Thuraya mobile phones were smuggled into Libya through the port of Misrata and distributed with the help of Al-Naseem icecream Factory owned by Raiedha family clan.
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Largest camp in the city of Benghazi against the University of Garyounis, battalion February 17
poured the largest shipments of arms, ammunition and even heating missiles coming from the State of Qatar to support the “rebels” in that time And their leaders Ali Salabi – Fawzi Boktef – Mustafa Alsaqzle
ismael sallabi
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MISRATA, APRIL 18: Libyan rebel fighter rolls a burning tire into a room containing ensconced government loyalist troops in the Taamin building
On 14 April, rebels claimed that pro-Gaddafi forces had fired dozens of Grad rockets on a residential area near the port, killing at least 23 civilians and wounding 100;[139] they also said that five civilians had been killed and 37 wounded in rocket attacks the previous day.
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Also on the 14th, artillery fire prevented a Qatari ship from docking in the port.[140]
The harbor was later closed, due to extensive damage from some 200 Grad missiles hitting the port area.[141]
On 14 April in the evening, a Greek ferry did dock with the purpose of transferring the foreigners to Benghazi from where they would move on to Egypt.
The next day, after unloading 400 tonnes of aid supplies, the ship left with 1,182 migrants on board, mostly Bangladeshis and Egyptians. Later, the Doctors Without Borders ship had also managed to dock and evacuated 99 people,[229] 64 of them wounded, to Tunisia.[230]
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from mid-March until mid-May 2011, when Qadhafi forces withdrew from Tripoli Street in central Misrata.
In its isolation during the conflict, Misrata developed its own leadership under the command of Khalifa Zway, who headed the local Misrata Council, and included representatives from the Misrata Military Council and Security Committee.
In financing the conflict, Misrata largely relied on private donations from wealthy Misratan individuals, as well as weapons reaching Misrata by the sea from Benghazi and Malta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Misrata
On 15 April,
Commander Tahar Mohammed, a clothes trader, now leads the "Grand Lion" rebel battalion.
"We are running an operation to clear out the snipers from this part of Tripoli Street," he says, standing among burning buildings.
That morning the group had recaptured a part of Tripoli Street previously under the control of Gaddafi's forces: "We pushed them back 500m in four hours."
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On 15 April,
loyalist forces began their heaviest attack on the city yet. Rebels said that government forces shelled the road to the port during the morning, killing at least eight people.[142]
From dawn to dusk government troops pounded the city with tanks, artillery, Grad rockets, mortars,
and, allegedly, cluster bombs.
and, allegedly, cluster bombs. :
DeleteThe NYTimes’ report came just as other media outlets, such as The Boston Globe, were beginning to offer a platform to more skeptical analyses of the rationale for war in Libya.
These pointed out that not only did Gaddafi not threaten a civilian massacre in Benghazi – this claim was made instead by rebels – he had offered an amnesty
to those who threw their weapons away
and even offered rebels an escape route to Egypt.
he use of cluster bombs, however, tilts the balance the other way,
strengthening the view that Gaddafi is prepared to kill his own people in order to survive.
http://thebrokenelbow.com/category/white-phosphorous/
On 15 April, "We are running an operation to clear out the snipers from this part of Tripoli Street," he says, standing among burning buildings.
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On April 3, just days after the visit by the Wall Street Journal reporter,the opposition forces struck back, executing an operation that stands as an example of rebel fighters' ingenuity here. They drove massive dumptrucks filled with sand onto Tripoli Street, parked them perpendicular across the thoroughfare, and blew out their tires so they couldn't be moved.
The trucks sealed off the main thoroughfare at both ends preventing resupplies from reaching Col. Gadhafi's forces.
In a press conference in Bengazi on Saturday, April 16, Ghoga also stated
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to coordinate ground operations with air strikes conducted by NATO.
19 apr. 2011 - Britain has already sent non-lethal support, including 1,000 sets of body armor and 100 satellite phones
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/28/libya-rebels-misrata-killed-nato
28 April 2011 "The coordinates we gave Nato [of our positions] were correct,"
Apr 18, 2011 Hospital administrator Abu Falgha said the last week has seen worsened injuries from cluster bombs, requiring many amputations in Misrata.
ReplyDeleteHe showed examples of the weapons kept in his office.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gIgVi7WQd3ks3noDw57IrI1cuqGQ?docId=CNG.56fb5187cd3c5d3cae064e25869ff3f4.181&hl=en
The chief of Misrata's hospital, Dr. Mohammed Fortia, stated that by 30 March
398 rebels and civilians had been killed.[218]
However, Fortia also said, at a later time, that 257 rebels and civilians were killed by 10 April.[219]
Just four days later, on 14 April, another doctor said 700 rebels and civilians died in the two-month siege.[139]
http://www.mr7-ly.com/vb/showthread.php?t=54723
352 names till 20 4 11 نسال الله ان يغفر شهداء مصراته وليبيا حره
list of martyrs of Misrata :41
1. احمد ابوبكر السنوسي عامر 2 . احمد مصطفى التريكي
3. اسماعيل عمر العويب 4 . محمد سعيد الماحي
5. سند علي عبدالله 6 . احمد فرج عياد الشبلي
7. هشام رمضان بن طاهر 8. عبدالحميد محمد الاطيرش
9. عبدالله محمد خليفة اقدورة 10. احمد ابراهيم الشهوبي
11. محمد مفتاح الجهيني 12. صلاح عبدالهادي سويسي
13. محمد علي جاب الله 14. محمد حسين الرمالي
15. ابراهيم سليمان يوسف خضر 16. عادل محمد علي اغليو
17. مصطفى على اشتيوي 18. عبد الحكيم عيسى السنوسي عامر
19. علي سليمان محمد الشحيح 20. جلال محمد عمر كريم
21. علي مصطفي بوزيقونة 22. مفتاح مصطفى التركي ( قذيفة دخلت منزله)
23. رافع سالم الروياني 24. احمد عمار ابوشفة (اقتحمو بيته وقتلوه وابنيه وغفير المنزل)
25. نورية بودبوس واسرتها بالكامل 26. همام عمر المحبشي
27. عمر نور الدين بوفرس 28.محمد مصطفي محمد بن هنية
29. معتر مصطفى محمد بن هنية 30. التوهامي رحومة
31. محمد فرج الحصان 32. عبد الكريم سالم بن رابعة
33. حسين حمودة بوشوفة 34. محمد سالم امبيض
35. عمر علي ابوسنينة 36. اسامة فرج انزريك
37. عزالدين محمد العصفور 38. صلاح عمر ابراهيم عريفة
39. علي الهادي الضراط 40. محمد مفتاح جويلي 41. يوسف الصغير الصلابي
04/17/11 Misrata Death Toll Hits 17
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/17/misrata-death-toll-hits-1_n_850300.html
10 June 2011 Misrata death toll rises to 31
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0610/302205-libya/
Why hasn’t the ICC called for sending an investigative team to Misurata to explore if there are mass graves ????
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There is credible evidence of the use of banned cluster bombs in at least two locations in Libya since December 2014.
ReplyDeletePhone interviews with witnesses and photographic evidence reviewed by Human Rights Watch indicate that remnants of RBK-250 PTAB 2.5M cluster bombs were found at Bin Jawad in February 2015 and at Sirte in March.
The good condition of the paint on the bomb casings and lack of extensive weathering indicated that the remnants had not been exposed to the environment for long and were from a recent attack.
The Libyan Air Force recently bombed both locations, but denied using cluster munitions.
It is not possible to determine responsibility on the basis of available evidence.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/14/libya-evidence-new-cluster-bomb-use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmqZDSIbl0
cluster bomb? Brega 2011
http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/JUNE/09/09_libyafighter_k_MED.jpg
http://www.channel4.com/news/the-teenage-libyan-rebel-from-manchester
In response to the question of why he assumed the munitions were fired by Libyan
rather than NATO forces, Fred Abrahams said,:
“Because the MAT-120 is mortar-fired and NATO has no troops on the ground.”
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/05/25/the-cluster-bombing-of-misrata-the-case-against-the-usa/
h, you're back too. Busy day. Good that HRW didn't stop following once Gaddai was gone, but I wonder what their beef is with the new government. Usually, you don't go around criticizing anyone who uses cluster bombs, just countries you're looking to cause problems for. As for the old stuff, he ground troops, of course we had if MAT-120 packets were simply dropped. And the video looks more like ammo dump going up.
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DeleteAgain? It's usually the spam filter. I will clean it out!
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The systems which can fire the MAT-120 include the NEMO and AMOS systems mounted in a turret.
Here is the AMOS system mounted on a CB-90 in action:
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/05/25/the-cluster-bombing-of-misrata-the-case-against-the-usa/
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Human Rights Watch reported that Muammar Gaddafi's forces laid both antipersonnel
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and antivehicle mines a few meters off the side of the main road on the eastern outskirts of
Ajdabiya in late March,
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/Download%20the%20Landmine%20Technical%20Briefing%20Note_1.pdf
Set of reports confirming use of Depleted Uranium by NATO in Libya Fri Aug 26, 2011
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You claim that HRW accuses Ghaddafi and act as if ghaddaffi's actions put him outside the realm of Humanity - yet you purposefully ignore that right here in this very thread have been published photos, eyewitness accounts, and Links to online videos, which show that the so-called 'rebels' have murdered fr more than 17 detainees.
The strreets of Tripoli are littered with the bodies of Black Africans, most of them murdered by the so-called 'rebel' forces. Yet not a words from you about that
BTW HRW, who produced the report you linked to. has been totally discredited in Libya after it accused Libyan Arny of attacking Misrata with 'Cluster Bombs'.
Even at the time there was quite a bit of scepticism of the charge, but after an investigation of the type of munitions used, it turned out that they were of Spanish origin, of a type which the Libyan Army had NEVER possessed.
The only people in the vicinity that HAD possessed those munitions were the NATO forces arrayed against the Libyan Army.
HRW has NEVER apologised nor admitted that there might even be grounds for questioning it's false claim.
In this instance HRW just manufactured some propaganda for NATO - it does that from time to time - For example: HRW analyst Marc Gerlasco, who went right from working in the Pentagon to working for HRW (some 'Humanitarian' eh?) , also did something similar during the Georgia/Russia conflict a few years ago- He claimed that mortars found in Georgia which killed a lot of civilians, were fired by Russia, but when examined the Mortars were Clearly of Israeli origin and had been supplied to Sackashvilli's forces by Israel - they looked nothing like Russian mortars and uniquely like Israeli mortars , so it is impossible to confuse them with Russian ones.HRW is not the paragon of virtue YOU seem to think it is.
And it relies heavily on PEOPLE LIKE YOU to continues to spread it's propaganda.
The initial phase of the revolution occurred during what can be described as ‘peacetime’.
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armed conflict in early March
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/2012/FFM_Libya-Report.pdf
In the present instance, the Mission does not possess the level of information required to determine the precise date at which the hostilities in Libya escalated to that of a non-international armed conflict
23 february 2011
Gadhafi "will use everything at hand, maybe even chemicals," said Khalifa al Daghari, a science professor at a local university. "We're looking for help from the world. They should stop this killing of civilians establish a no-fly zone and send medical aid."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/23/109295/gadhafi-no-match-for-eastern-libyans.html
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.44_AUV.pdf
187. Use of Phosphorous Weapons: The Commission received some information
pertaining to the possible use of phosphorous weapons.
A doctor in Benghazi who met with the Commission described injuries
that might be consistent with those produced by
explosive ordinances containing phosphorus.
At Al-Jalaa’ Hospital, Benghazi, the Commission was provided with photos
of the bodies of nine persons
who had been brought to the hospital during the second half of February.
The bodies were burnt but were shrunk in such a way that may be consistent with the use of phosphorous weapons.
A Human Rights Watch refers to the government forces having access to white phosphorous artillery projectiles.247
Further investigation, including military and forensic pathologist expertise
would be required to verify the usage of such weapons.
16 February 2011 The director of the city's Al-Jala hospital, Abdelkarim Gubeaili, told AFP that 38 people were treated for light injuries.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/16/137834.html
Oea newspaper said that a group of protesters killed the managing director of AL-Galaa hospital in downtown Benghazi, Libya 's second largest city. The victim's body was tortured, it added
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/19/c_13739109.htm
That facility came into rebel hands somehow in the early days; there were reports this happened after its managing director was killed on February 18, day three of "protests," his body tortured (see: Video Study: Hospital Brutality).
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/dr-sabri-status-request.html
Brigadier General Abdulhadi Arafa one of the most powerful men in Benghazi, commands 2,000 members of a special-forces unit ordered his officers to stay in their barracks, lock the gates and not take any action against the protesters. Their men were not to shoot at anyone unless they were shot at themselves.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-courthouse-in-benghazi-the-nerve-center-of-the-libyan-revolution-a-749227.html
On the camp's southern side, meanwhile, protesters drove a tank from a nearby army base in another attempt to break in, witnesses said. They have also obtained other weapons, the protester said. Protesters who speak to CNN are not being identified for safety reasons.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/20/libya.protests/
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BREAKING: would like to confirm GADDAFIs Nephew now DEAD in benghazi by grenade attacks in the birka barracks, wall has come down #Libya Sat Feb-19-11 12:59 PM
- 20 feb Benghazi residents said soldiers from a unit had joined their protest and defeated a force Gaddafi's elite guards. Bodies were brought to a hospital riddled with bullets and wounds from rocket-propelled grenades.
.Monday 21 February 150 corpses burning and we believe they were the bodies of officers and soldiers More than 350 people have been killed, he said, while adding that this death toll did not include the grim discovery made inside the army garrison headquarters by those who entered it following its surrender
Benghazi Medical Centre under French management till feb 2011
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Here is the trailer for 'Healing the Revolution' - a documentary by French filmmaker Delphine Dufriche. It follows events at the Benghazi Medical Centre during the revolution, where waves on protesters, rebels and civilians were brought
into the hospital to receive treatment.
Benghazi Medical Centre
http://vimeo.com/63697004
March 1, 2011
Human Rights Watch researchers are currently working in eastern Libya and along the Tunisian border to investigate crimes committed by Libyan authorities. Fred Abrahams, special crisis adviser at Human Rights Watch, says the organization has direct communication with their researchers and tells Need to Know what they’ve seen.
Joanna Nikas: How does Human Rights Watch get its reporting from the ground in Libya, and what have you been hearing?
Fred Abrahams: Well, the reports from the ground have been more and more difficult to get as the conflict develops. At the beginning, we had ongoing communications by phone, e-mail and Skype with people in the east. And they were giving us the numbers in the hospitals — the wounded and the dead. Now, we have a researcher who is on the ground in the east, in the city of Benghazi, so we’re getting very direct and firsthand information. We have another researcher on the Tunisian-Libyan border.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/human-rights-watch-in-libya/7657/
I’d known Jim Foley, a fellow American, the longest. He’d come to Benghazi from Afghanistan in time to catch Qaddafi’s attack on the city on March 19,
and he and I had been close ever since
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/120216/libya-james-foley-muammar-gaddafi-sirte-chapter-four
http://www.hrw.org/events/2014/11/13/e-team-screening-discussion-ross-kauffman-director-and-e-team-member-peter-bouckae
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Directed by Ross Kauffman (Born into Brothels) and Katy Chevigny, E-Team follows the Human Rights Watch’s Emergencies Team to the frontlines in war-torn areas like Libya
and Syria
to document the atrocities committed under the dictatorial reigns of the late Muammar Qaddafi and Bashar al-Assad.
The job of the E-Team is to collect firsthand evidence of war crimes and present it to First World governments to incite positive action.
And the documentary primarily centers on E-Team members Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang, an intrepid husband-and-wife duo, as well as E-Team founder Fred Abrahams and its arms expert, Peter Bouckaert.
The action opens in Syria in early 2013, as Assad-sanctioned planes drop cluster bombs filled with scrap metal, leaving 200 civilians injured.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/21/e-team-james-foley-s-last-film.html
Back in January, I spoke to E-Team directors Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny,
as well as subjects Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang about the gripping, vital documentary.
Our discussion came just two days after the 2014 Syrian detainee report was released—31 pages that detailed allegations of systematic killing by the Assad regime, stating that 11,240 children aged 17 and younger were killed in Syria between March 2011 and August 2013.
The report was accompanied by the images of 55,000 emaciated and/or mutilated corpses, courtesy of a Syrian military police photographer and defector who goes by the code name “Caesar.”
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2014/11/article-fail-ceasar-part-2-re.html
Fail Caesar part 2: Re-Considering The Victims updated
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2014/11/fail-caesar-part-1-protecting-his.html
as opposed to Libya where we came in the middle.
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If there was ever a moment that anyone was out in the field – whether it was myself,
Rachel Beth Anderson or Jim Foley – it was always about their work.
When they’d say, “Put the camera down” you put the camera down.
We just follow their lead.
Oftentimes, Human Rights Watch actually sends people who take photos
or do video for them, so it’s not an extremely unusual thing for them.
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FIRST TO FALL follows a group of young civilian expatriate 'rebels' on their 8-month journey to liberate Libya, their home country. They give up comfortable, stable lives in order to take up arms
Directors:Rachel Beth Anderson, Timothy Grucza
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263874/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
BBC rejects final appeal re: Saving Syria’s Children
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/2441/
[1] With regard to Dr Ahsan’s journalistic objectivity, note her remark in this 2011 BBC News article about Libya:
“I want to be part of this Arab Spring, even though I was born in Britain and my roots are in Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
A number of Dr Ahsan’s Facebook photographs from Libya in 2011 depict her support for the Libyan opposition; several feature Dr Ahsan posing with armed groups which include children.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151154692985309&set=a.10150617655725309.442185.673340308&type=1
No hint from BBCNews that Western power was a major cause of the 'power vacuum' in Libya.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2015/789-love-for-libya-2011-2015.html
Saleyha Ahsan is a doctor, a journalist and an award winning filmmaker.
DeleteShe was also a captain in the British Army who served in Bosnia.
For the past month, Saleya has been working as a medical volunteer with Libya’s war wounded. She started out in a hospital in neighboring Tunisia.
In her second dispatch for Latitude News she profiles the chief doctor in the hospital in Tunisian desert, Dr. Emad Abosrewel.
http://www.latitudenews.com/story/on-the-medical-front-line-of-libyas-uprising-dr-emads-story/
Ibrahim was by himself. His family was pro-Gadaffi and had fled Tripoli as the rebels advanced but equally were fearful of coming to Tatouine with Ibrahim.
His mother had made the difficult decision to let her eldest child make the journey alone.
Ibrahim formed a bond with Nader Elamessi, the World for Libya medical co-ordinator working closely with Dr. Emad.
Remember that on March 2, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S., Mike Mullen, testified before Congress: “we could not confirm that Libyan planes had opened fire on their own population.” Around the same time, the Russian Joint Chief of Staff reported that satellite monitoring over Libyan territory since the crisis’ beginning in mid-February, failed to detect any kind of bombing.
ReplyDeletehttp://theglobalrealm.com/2011/12/03/libya-deja-vu-in-syria-using-human-rights-organizations-to-launch-wars/
#Davutoglu 13/3/11: #Gaddafi must leave and he will leave. Now he is winning the battle and we are worried
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/16/137834.html
http://archive.larouchepac.com/node/29543
Ali Davutoglu as the Turkish consul in Benghazi served directly under the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin
a secret agreement
highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/qatar-leaks-business-foreign-affairs
http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2290/Meet-Wissam-bin-Hamid-Uncle-Sams-Jihadist-Security-Officer.aspx
Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
185.
ReplyDeletehttp://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.44_AUV.pdf
Cluster munitions.
The Commission is aware of reports of the use of cluster
munitions by pro-Government forces in their attempt to regain control of the besieged city
of Misrata. On 15 April 2011, HRW reported that Government forces had fired cluster
munitions in residential neighborhoods of Misrata further specifying that the cluster
munitions were Spanish produced MAT 120mm mortar projectile, which open in mid-air
and release 21 submunitions over a wide area.241
Other independent sources including Amnesty International have confirmed the incident and stated that Spain sold such munitions to Libya in 2007.
Further investigation, including military and forensic pathologist expertise is, however, required to confirm or deny
the usage of cluster munitions.
The crimes are rampant, random, and often undocumented
ReplyDelete2011: Late April, documented evidence is revealed that Libya's rebels are conducting
a barbaric campaign, employing extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate military force,
child-soldiers, landmines, and torture. New York Times blames a lack of support.
http://heritage.perm.ru/UGF/print.php?id=11&t_id=28
01 September 2014
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/13869-is-used-cluster-munitions-in-syria
IS used cluster munitions in Syria
April 01, 2014
http://rt.com/news/syria-chemical-attack-militants-645/
Militants in Syria prepare chemical attack in Damascus – UN envoy
March 1 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178003
Libyan officials recently caught several members of a Muslim extremist group as they attempted to send deadly chemical weapons to Syria, Channel 2 reports.
The report quoted Colonel Mansour al-Mazini as saying that the extremists had been caught with a container of mustard gas.
http://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/obamas-rats-in-libya-are-trying-to-send-mustard-gas-to-their-obamas-cannibal-brothers-in-syria/
The mustard gas is not weaponised and would be difficult to use in any immediate attack. But much of the concern is that material could be diverted or sold to third parties such as terrorist groups.
The United States is involved in the safeguard discussions, but there is no current consideration of sending U.S. troops the official said.
The focus of the planning effort is what to do "if a force of some type is needed to secure the site," he said. "The discussion is: who is best suited to do it?" Any force could include both military personnel as well as intelligence or contractor personnel with the technical expertise in monitoring chemical stockpiles.
A NATO official said if there is a need to send personnel to Rabta it might be done by individual nations rather than the alliance which would have to reach a consensus on sending NATO forces on a new mission.
http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=6753
Libyan chemical weapons production was centered at the “Pharma 150″ plant at Rabta, construction of which began in 1984
http://www.t-room.us/what-is-really-happening-in-libya-why-is-nato-bombing-tripoli-a-dense-population-of-libyans/
According to UN inspectors and European intelligence sources, Libya had only small amounts of World War I technology mustard gas, a primitive battlefield weapon.
It had no biological or nuclear weapons.
http://www.bigeye.com/011204.htm
January 25, 2014
Warshefana: Eight Cases of Suffocation from Chemical Weapons
https://jamahiriyanewsagency.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/warshefana-eight-cases-of-suffocation-from-chemical-weapons/
October 27, 2012
Bani Walid: , Phosphorus Bombs And Nerve Gas
https://vivalibya.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/continued-massacre-in-bani-walid-foreign-fighters-phosphorus-bombs-and-nerve-gas/
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/06/attacks-on-chakika.html
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Cluster Bombs
During the course of the war, according to a four-month investigation by USA Today, the U.S. dropped 10,800 cluster bombs on Iraq. “The bomblets packed inside these weapons wiped out
Iraqi troop formations and silenced Iraqi artillery,” reported USA Today. “They also killed civilians. These unintentional deaths added to the hostility that has complicated the U.S. occupation.”
https://compliancecampaign.wordpress.com/category/libya-war/
Pentagon Silent on Current Use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-silent-on-current-use-of-depleted-uranium-in-iraq/5428495
After Libya, the question: To protect or depose?
ReplyDelete(LATimes op-ed) NATO has gone beyond the United Nations mandate
to protect the Libyan people, and now some U.N. member states are reluctant to act on Syria.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/25/opinion/la-oe-bolopion-libya-responsibility-t20110825
Philippe Bolopion is U.N. director at Human Rights Watch
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March 19, 2015
Avaaz call for a ‘no-fly zone’ in Syria.
https://interventionswatch.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/avaaz-call-for-a-no-fly-zone-in-syria/
March 23, 2015 HRW : mimicking the ruthlessness of government forces Syria
http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/22/syria-rebels-car-bombs-rockets-kill-civilians
Opposition armed groups in Syria have indiscriminately attacked civilians in government-held territory with car bombs, mortars, and rockets, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today
http://www.hrw.org/node/133423
HumanRightsWatch began in 1978 with the founding of its
Europe and Central Asia division (then known as HelsinkiWatch).
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/wr2013_web.pdf
http://web.inter.com.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/528244462385102848
Within Human Rights Watch, Helsinki Watch has the responsibility for monitoring the United States. As in previous year, we focused primarily on U.S. policies affecting freedom of movement of people and ideas.
ReplyDeleteIn June, Helsinki Watch published "Detained, Denied, Deported: Asylum Seekers in the United States," a 105 page report written by Karin Konig.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1989/WR89/Helsinki.htm
The UN number was likewise based on hearsay,
taken from opposition members in Geneva
and compiled by Fortune 500 think-tank director, Karen Koning AbuZayd
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/04/amnesty-international-propaganda.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-and-the-big-lie-using-human-rights-organizations-to-launch-wars/26848
21 february 2011 A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist,
ReplyDeletetold the network by telephone that Libyan air force war planes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli".He said he was talking from a suburb of Tripoli.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/libya-protests-jets-idAFLDE71K26320110221
But the figures were beside the point on 21 February; it was impressions that counted.
The impression made by the story that Gaddafi’s airforce was slaughtering peaceful protesters was huge, and it was natural to take the resignations of Abdul Jalil and the ambassadors, the flight of the two pilots, and especially Dabbashi’s dramatic declaration about genocide as corroborating al-Jazeera’s story.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n22/hugh-roberts/who-said-gaddafi-had-to-go
24 February 2011 "Open Letter to Ambassador Susan Rice," by Genocide Watch
http://www.genocidewatch.org/libya.html
Directors and Advisors Dr. Samantha Power
http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=664:libya-violence-against-demonstrators-by-armed-civilians-groups-leads-to-more-than-50-dead&catid=27:communiqu&Itemid=138
The names of individuals confirmed dead, many as a result of the use of live ammunition, since the outbreak of protests on 15 February until 17 February 2011 are:
13 Killed in Benghazi (3 unidentified) and 40 to 50 injured
1. Ibrahim Mohamed Al Orfi (ابراهيم محمد العرفي), 19 years old
2. Naji Jumaa Jordane Al Kawafi (ناجي جمعة جردان الكوافي), 18 years old
3. Motaz Abdel Ati Al Darouqi (معتز عبدالعاطي الدروقي), 19 years old
4. Hamad Al Allam (حمد العلام), 27 years old
5. Faouzi Hussein Al Sabiri (فوزي حسين الصابري), 36 years old
6. Marwan Al Shattat (مروان الشطشاط), 20 years old
7. Mohamed Salem Boujnah (محمد سالم بوجناح), 21 years old
8. Idris Ali Raslan Al Maghribi (ادريس علي رسلان المغربي), 13 years old (bullet in the neck)
9. Rami Saleh Al Maghribi (رامي صالح المغربي), 18 years old
10. Moayed Fathi Boujlaoui (مؤيد فتحي بوجلاوي), 26 years old
4 Killed in Darna
1. Mohamed Abdeladim Al Saiti (محمد عبد العظيم السعيطي)
2. Aboubakr Fathi Al Tachani (ابوبكر فتحي الطشاني)
3. Ahmed Kamal Al Chahini (احمد كمال الشيهني)
4. Salem Abou Madi (سالم ابوماضي)
2 killed in Al Baydaa
1. Khaled Khanfeer (خالد خنفر)
2. Saad Al Yemeni (سعد اليمني)
350 people have been killed. This dead toll did not include the grim discovery made inside
the army garrison head quarters (where ) we found 150 corpses burning
http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150326/txidrgvt.jpg
The barracks were at one time commanded according to this document by Colonel Al-Jarih Farkash. Several nephews of Gaddafi were Captains at the base..
http://en.alkarama.org/iraq/666-libya-alkarama-calls-for-a-investigation-by-the-international-criminal-court-into-crimes-committed-by-colonel-gaddafi-and-his-two-sons
21 February 2011 Libya: Alkarama calls for a investigation by the International Criminal Court into crimes committed by Colonel Gaddafi and his two sons
http://www.un.org/press/en/2011/sc10187.doc.htm
26 February 2011 SC/10187/Rev.1 In Swift, Decisive Action, Security Council Imposes Tough Measures on Libyan Regime, Adopting Resolution 1970 in Wake of Crackdown on Protesters
Mendez, an Argentine lawyer and American University visiting professor of international law in Washington, D.C., said he is teaming up for the probe with the UN's special rapporteur for extrajudicial executions and a panel of experts on disappearances.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/09/954234/-Witnessing-Revolution-Liveblog-142
Muammar Gaddafi gave order not to use force against demonstrators
ReplyDeleteat the beginning of the Nakba February 17
Mustafa Abdul Jalil admitted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1addiLIYRKQ#!
The French Foreign Ministry said, "All possible actions must be examined, including getting international justice involved," in apparent reference to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
http://www.rferl.org/content/world_grapples_for_response_in_libya/2319530.html
3.14pm: Human Rights Watch Richard Dickler said
Gaddafi's alleged war crimes should still be investigated, even if he has been killed today.
In addition, we look to the ICC prosecutor to investigate
allegations of other crimes against humanity and war crimes in Libya.
The prosecutor's mandate enables him to look at possible crimes
committed by all sides in the armed conflict.
Thursday 20 October 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/oct/20/syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live
Libya's interim government has become the first in the world to recognise Syria's opposition movement as a "legitimate authority" to rule Syria.
March 19, 2015
DeleteAvaaz call for a ‘no-fly zone’ in Syria.
https://interventionswatch.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/avaaz-call-for-a-no-fly-zone-in-syria/
http://www.avaaz.org/en/libya_no_fly_zone/
“Perriello has had a long relationship with Soros’ Open Society-funded Human Rights Watch
http://theartofannihilation.com/welcome-to-the-brave-new-world-brought-to-you-by-avaaz/
horrific atrocities and war crimes february 2011
ReplyDeletehttp://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/libyas-not-so-noble-rebels.html
Follow up reports of rebel war crimes & a hypocritical "international community."
the Libyan rebels, who themselves admit ties to Al-Qaeda,
are reportedly butchering, beheading, and mutilating captured government troops
and clearly guilty of employing the same weapons and tactics NATO has baselessly accused Qaddafi of using - the very justification used by NATO to enter the war in the first place
https://www.facebook.com/libyafacts/posts/866968406647849
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykl_j6Yo4W4
Rest in peace Hisham Al Fitouri, killed on 16-2-2011&hanged on a bridge Bayda
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/04/rebel-atrocity-videos.html
https://www.facebook.com/69Alfars/photos/a.1402423443343108.1073741828.1402417656677020/1507961489455969/?type=1&permPage=1
According to a local activist, protesters in Bayda succeeded to capture its military airbase,
and then "executed 50 African mercenaries and two Libyan conspirators".
He also claimed that other "conspirators were executed" in Derna by burning down a police station, where they were locked up in cells.[23]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WopKrg7aWJg
On February 23, a group of 22 government soldiers attempted to make a breakout
from an air base near Derna, which had been under siege for days by rebel fighters.
Within hours, all of them were captured and eventually 12 of them were shot execution style while a 13th was hanged by the opposition forces.[18]
Between February 15 and May 22, 37 former government loyalists were killed in Benghazi in revenge killings by some opposition groups.[19]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2011_Libyan_Civil_War_before_military_intervention
Libyan soldiers and civilians tortured and lynched AlQaeda style in the beginning of the so called revolution
https://ar-ar.facebook.com/aldaeki/posts/391632594225616
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/17/lynching-in-benghazi/
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/08/gaddafi-burning-soldiers-alive-really.html
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/07/february-19s-death-toll-in-benghazi.html
https://nocheinparteibuch.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/hidden-behind-propaganda-a-giant-crime-against-libya-is-fact-part-i/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDO3qCCqW7Q
jalaa hospital february 18 2011
The al-Jala was the busiest hospital during the first few days of intense strife in Libya's second city, and many of the wounded from those days are at the wards.
There were also the bodies of three "mercenaries" from sub-Saharan Africa used by the regime against the demonstrators.
Their bodies, with deep wounds to the head and torso, lay beside that of a Libyan soldier.
These, too, said Mr ELAMI will remain unclaimed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/body-bags-reveal-fate-of-soldiers-who-refused-to-fire-on-their-own-people-2228512.html
24 February 2011 "Open Letter to Ambassador Susan Rice," by Genocide Watch
Deletehttp://www.genocidewatch.org/libya.html
Directors and Advisors Dr. Samantha Power
http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=664:libya-violence-against-demonstrators-by-armed-civilians-groups-leads-to-more-than-50-dead&catid=27:communiqu&Itemid=138
The names of individuals confirmed dead, many as a result of the use of live ammunition, since the outbreak of protests on 15 February until 17 February 2011 are:
13 Killed in Benghazi (3 unidentified) and 40 to 50 injured
1. Ibrahim Mohamed Al Orfi (ابراهيم محمد العرفي), 19 years old
2. Naji Jumaa Jordane Al Kawafi (ناجي جمعة جردان الكوافي), 18 years old
3. Motaz Abdel Ati Al Darouqi (معتز عبدالعاطي الدروقي), 19 years old
4. Hamad Al Allam (حمد العلام), 27 years old
5. Faouzi Hussein Al Sabiri (فوزي حسين الصابري), 36 years old
6. Marwan Al Shattat (مروان الشطشاط), 20 years old
7. Mohamed Salem Boujnah (محمد سالم بوجناح), 21 years old
8. Idris Ali Raslan Al Maghribi (ادريس علي رسلان المغربي), 13 years old (bullet in the neck)
9. Rami Saleh Al Maghribi (رامي صالح المغربي), 18 years old
10. Moayed Fathi Boujlaoui (مؤيد فتحي بوجلاوي), 26 years old
4 Killed in Darna
1. Mohamed Abdeladim Al Saiti (محمد عبد العظيم السعيطي)
2. Aboubakr Fathi Al Tachani (ابوبكر فتحي الطشاني)
3. Ahmed Kamal Al Chahini (احمد كمال الشيهني)
4. Salem Abou Madi (سالم ابوماضي)
2 killed in Al Baydaa
1. Khaled Khanfeer (خالد خنفر)
2. Saad Al Yemeni (سعد اليمني)
350 people have been killed.
This dead toll did not include the grim discovery made inside the army garrison head quarters (where ) we found 150 corpses burning
http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150326/txidrgvt.jpg
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The barracks were at one time commanded according to this document by Colonel Al-Jarih Farkash. Several nephews of Gaddafi were Captains at the base..
http://en.alkarama.org/iraq/666-libya-alkarama-calls-for-a-investigation-by-the-international-criminal-court-into-crimes-committed-by-colonel-gaddafi-and-his-two-sons
21 February 2011 Libya: Alkarama calls for a investigation by the International Criminal Court into crimes committed by Colonel Gaddafi and his two sons
http://www.un.org/press/en/2011/sc10187.doc.htm
26 February 2011 SC/10187/Rev.1 In Swift, Decisive Action, Security Council Imposes Tough Measures on Libyan Regime, Adopting Resolution 1970 in Wake of Crackdown on Protesters
Mendez, an Argentine lawyer and American University visiting professor of international law in Washington, D.C., said he is teaming up for the probe with the UN's special rapporteur for extrajudicial executions and a panel of experts on disappearances.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/09/954234/-Witnessing-Revolution-Liveblog-142
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Muammar Gaddafi gave order not to use force against demonstrators at the beginning of the Nakba February 17 Mustafa Abdul Jalil admitted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1addiLIYRKQ#!
ReplyDelete22 February 2011
UNHCR
With the events of the past few days in Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya),
UNHCR has become increasingly concerned about dangers for civilians
and especially for asylum-seekers and refugees as many may inadvertently
be caught up in this violence.
We have no access at this time to the refugee community.
Over the past months we have been trying to regularize our presence in Libya, and this has constrained our work.
Some of the reports we are getting from third-party sources are very worrying.
A journalist has passed information to us from Somalis in Tripoli who say they are being hunted on suspicion of being mercenaries. He says they feel trapped and are frightened to go out, even though there is little or no food at home.
https://globalciviliansforpeace.wordpress.com/racist-rebel-crimes-and-ethnic-cleansing-throughout-the-libyan-conflict/
Since the news had surfaced that Gaddafi has allegedly hired 'black' mercenaries to kill people,
their situation has become outright dangerous.
There is a huge danger that there will soon be
a day of reckoning for African migrants,
and the arbitrary violence has possibly started already
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/103
,March 30, 2011 at 5:00 am/The International Federation of Human Rights numbers the mercenaries to be 6,000
whereas Human Rights Solidarity gives an estimate of 30,000[1].
http://hrcpblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/international-federation-for-human-rights-fidh-libyan-league-for-human-rights-llh/
http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/01/11/the-gaddafi-mercenaries-and-the-division-of-africa-amnesty-international/
We left behind our friends from Chad. We left behind their bodies.
We had 70 or 80 people from Chad working for our company.
They cut them dead with pruning shears and axes, attacking them,
saying you’re providing troops for Gaddafi.
The Sudanese, the Chadians were massacred.
We saw it ourselves.(Link)
https://libyadiary.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/africa-loves-muammar-gaddafi/
The director of the Benzhazi Medical Centre, Dr Fathi Moustafa Sheibani,
ReplyDeletewho seems to leave very little internet trace,
is one of many members of the International Libyan Communications Group ILYC,
most of whose members are doctors and mainly based in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Mission statement:
We are voluntary active highly professional Libyan people group from different fields decide to work and communicate with each other all over the world to help our own Libyan people our goals
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/11/foreign-adventurers.html
LibyaFeb17 and EnoughGaddafi are pushed by Movements.org, the web site
of an Alliance of Youth Movements.
http://www.internationalist.org/libyanshowdown1103.html
movements.org.
In 2011, the Alliance of Youth Movements rebranded as “Movements.org.”
http://endrtimes.blogspot.com/2009/12/avaazorg-moveon-goes-international.html
In 2012 Movements.org became a division of “Advancing Human Rights,”
a new NGO set up by Robert L. Bernstein
after he resigned from Human Rights Watch (which he had originally founded)
because he felt it should not cover Israeli and US human rights abuses.28
Advancing Human Rights aims to right Human Rights Watch’s wrong by focusing exclusively on “dictatorships.”29
Cohen stated that the merger of his Movements.org outfit with Advancing Human Rights was “irresistible,” pointing to the latter’s “phenomenal network of cyberactivists in the Middle East and North Africa.”30
He then joined the Advancing Human Rights board,
which also includes Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces
in occupied Afghanistan.31
In its present guise, Movements.org continues to receive funding from Gen Next,
as well as from Google, MSNBC, and PR giant Edelman, which represents General Electric, Boeing, and Shell, among others.32
http://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org
22 october 2013
ReplyDelete"In Libya now, there is an armed wing for each politician,"
said Abdel-Hakim al-Balazi,
spokesman for the Anti-Crime Department,
a militia umbrella group that includes Islamic radicals.
Al-Balazi himself has been accused by Zidan of involvement in his abduction and was placed at one point under house arrest.
http://news.yahoo.com/libya-militias-politicians-meld-explosive-mix-205532103.html
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21 february 2011 A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist,
told the network by telephone that Libyan air force war planes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli".
He said he was talking from a suburb of Tripoli.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/libya-protests-jets-idAFLDE71K26320110221
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-14-2013-theres-famous-syrian.html?showComment=1388970316597#c8642780256144205816
felixFebruary 15, 2012 10:22 PM
One UK person who was responsible for getting out the message that Gaddafi was bombing his own people, via the compliant MSM, was Julien Barnes-Dacey then of London SE1 based consultancy Control Risks His quote was "These really seem to be last, desperate acts. If you’re bombing your own capital, it’s really hard to see how you can survive, " its Middle East anaylst Julien Barnes-Dacey said. (based on the familiar phone call to Reuters, A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist, told the network by telephone that Libyan air force war planes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli".
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/06/ashm-research-timeline-clues.html
ReplyDeleteDr Jamal Harisha: Free and Justice Party
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8879955/Libyan-cleric-announces-new-party-on-lines-of-moderate-Islamic-democracy.html
The second doctor to visit the Khamis warehouse compound was
Consultant breast surgeon Jamal Harousha
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/08/tripoli-massacres-50-charred-skeletons.html?showComment=1328021039506#comment-c2506104293838028078
felixJan 6, 2012 06:56 PM
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/08/gaddafi-burning-soldiers-alive-really.html
May 4, 2012 at 10:34 AM
That sudden endorsement of the official Khamis shed narrative by Clive Baldwin
is interesting. Baldwin is the Senior Legal Advisor for the Legal and Policy office
at Human Rights Watch,
where he has been working on issues of international law since 2007.
I doubt very much he was in Tripoli at the time, yet Sky News reports him in a report
filed at 05.45 on Sunday 28 August.
So, he makes a call based on a fishy report by the sole HRW operative in Tripoli
who hasn't even seen the shed,just spoken to a dodgy witness
and Stuart Ramsay being led up the garden path by key perps Salim Rajub/Rajip/Al-Ferjani
and Al-Hitri.
On 27 August, Baldwin tweets the HRW report Libya: Q&A on the Arrest and Surrender of the Three International Criminal Court Suspects dated 26 August.
And so the the same day as the much publised BBC World at One broadcast by Sidney Kwiram, we are fixing the evidence around the demand for the arrests..
And on Sept 2, HRW rushes into the Sky News studio:
For Libya, recording did briefly take on an official and international character,
ReplyDeletebut this came to an abrupt end on 4 June,
with the closure of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs-funded Libya crisis map, tracking security incidents across the country.
This means there is now no high-profile international project dedicated to recording deaths in the Libya conflict, although there are certainly some dedicated volunteers
contributing to the Wikipedia page on the subject which is forced – at present – to hedge its bets with a figure of 2,000 to 13,000 overall deaths across different timeframes.
http://www.unocha.org/
http://www.everycasualty.org/newsandviews/libya-toll-nato-didnt-count
Barely six weeks into the invasion, British officials were already boasting that NATO
had killed over 35,000
such human beings (in the usual euphemistic way, of course – “We estimate that [Gaddafi] has around 30 per cent of his ground forces capability remaining,” is how one British official put it, after estimating an initial ‘capability’ of 50,000).
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/when-are-humans-not-human-libya-liberalism-and-the-global-south/
http://www.nuovaresistenza.org/2011/04/02/youtube-gaddafis-war-crimes-in-ajdabiya-libya-march-26-2011/
Nato's War Crimes in Ajdabiya, Libya. March 26, 2011.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370098/Libyan-rebels-regain-Ajdabiya-RAF-Tornado-jets-airstrikes-Gaddafis-forces.html
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http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-secret-war-in-libya.html
http://www.amnesty.org/sites/impact.amnesty.org/files/PUBLIC/mde190362011en.pdf
At the time of Amnesty International’s visit to Libya between 18 August and 21 September, some 2,500 people were held in detention facilities in Tripoli, its suburbs and al-Zawiya – all arrested since late August 2011.
About 1,130 detainees were held in Misratah in mid-September; some had been detained for months, others had been arrested since late August
when Zliten, Khums and Tripoli fell under NTC control.
http://alrassedalliby.com/news/news.aspx?id=2165347
a list of the first victims of the Libyan war
http://vivalibya.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%B6%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8/
May 8, 2012
ReplyDeleteWhile haggling between the ICC and Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) over the fate of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi continues,
Libya quietly, but controversially, passed a blanket amnesty for pro-Revolution rebels.
According to Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), under ‘Law 38′, amnesty will be granted for any “acts made necessary by the 17 February revolution” and for the revolution’s “success or protection”.
Earlier, reports suggested that the amnesty law was being drafted in order to appease
Libya’s tribal leaders who presumably fear anti-Gaddafi rebels being held accountable for human rights violations committed during the uprising.
http://justiceinconflict.org/2012/05/08/impunity-rules-libya-passes-controversial-amnesty-law/
It is a blanket amnesty, meaning that everyone and all crimes are covered.
Serious atrocity crimes, such as war crimes or crimes against humanity will go without investigation or prosecution.
July 21, 2014
Libya is looking into the possibility of allowing the International Criminal Court (ICC)
to prosecute those responsible for the recent violence in Tripoli and elsewhere,
notably the attacks on Tripoli International Airport.
http://justiceinconflict.org/2014/07/21/back-against-the-wall-libya-wants-the-icc-to-prosecute-wanton-militias/
Still, one of the those forces involved in the current fighting – the powerful and Misrata militia – is the same militia that attacked and alleged ethnically cleansed the city of Tawergha.
To date, they have enjoyed blanket impunity. So if the ICC is going to get involved, it should go after those responsible for clear cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Tawergha would be a good – if much belated – starting point.
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HRW July 13, 2011
Looting, Arson, and Some Beatings in Captured Western Towns Libya
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/07/13/libya-opposition-forces-should-protect-civilians-and-hospitals
On the 12th July, Human Rights Investigations wrote:
“Given the atrocities committed in Misrata and Benghazi the option of allowing the rebels to conquer pro-Gaddafi population centres is inconceivable – there is now only one option – and that option is peace.”
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/08/31/amnesty-racist-rebel-atrocities-libya/
HRW 24 Sep 2014
Assassinations May Be Crimes Against Humanity
“The militias and individual killers are killing people on all sides with complete impunity,” said Sarah Leah Whitson,
http://reliefweb.int/report/libya/assassinations-may-be-crimes-against-humanity
On August 27, 2014, the UN Security Council passed resolution 2174 broadening existing international sanctions on Libya to include people who engage in or support acts that “threaten the peace, stability or security of Libya, or obstruct or undermine the successful completion of its political transition.”
In its resolution 2174, the Security Council also recalled its 2011 decision to refer the situation in Libya to the ICC and reaffirmed the importance of holding accountable the people responsible for serious crimes, including those involved in attacks targeting civilians.
In 2011, the UN Human Rights Council established a commission of inquiry on Libya with a mandate to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in Libya and to make recommendations. That Commission was established on February 25, 2011 and issued two reports. Its mandate expired in March 2012.
October 23, 2012
ReplyDeleteFor some time to come, Libya shall stand as an enduring symbol of the West’s hypocrisy, and indeed duplicity, on the issue of human rights.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/23/libya-and-the-human-rights-double-standard/
On October 5, 2012, Amnesty International (AI) reported upon the siege of Bani Walid by government forces. As AI explained then, “members of the Libyan army, Libya Shield forces and armed militias from various parts of the country, including Misatra, surrounded Bani Walid,”
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/01/mainstream-concern-over-rebel-torture.html
torture 2012 – 2013
2010 nov /the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) submitted on behalf of victims - and relatives of victims - of grievous human rights abuses, several communications against the Libyan Government to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).
http://www.omct.org/assistance-to-victims/statements/libya/2010/11/d21008/
We are gravely concerned that armed groups in Libya continue to exploit vulnerable
asylum-seekers who are pushed to risk their lives to seek safety elsewhere," Jon Hoisaeter, UNHCR Representative to Malta said.
http://www.unhcr.org.mt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=621%3Aeritrean-asylum-seekers-recount-imprisonment-and-abuse-in-libya&catid=91%3Anorth-africa-situation-2&Itemid=160
November 14, 2012
Women at such centers are also vulnerable to sexual assault as none of the facilities
for female detainees had female guards.
http://rt.com/news/libya-foreigners-torture-amnesty-international-606/
detention abuses staining the new libya
In early and mid-September, Amnesty International shared its concerns in meetings
and through written memoranda regarding arbitrary detention and torture
or other ill-treatment with high-ranking NTC officials, including
Acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil and Finance Ali Tarhouni,
Acting Minister of Justice Mohamed al-Allagi,
Acting Minister of Interior Ahmed Darrat,
President of the Tripoli Military Council Abdelhakim Belhaj,
and head of the Supreme Security Council Abdelmajid Saif al-Nasr.
http://www.amnesty.org/sites/impact.amnesty.org/files/PUBLIC/mde190362011en.pdf
At the time of Amnesty International’s visit to Libya between 18 August and 21 September, some 2,500 people were held in detention facilities in Tripoli, its suburbs and al-Zawiya – all arrested since late August 2011.
About 1,130 detainees were held in Misratah in mid-September; some had been detained for months, others had been arrested since late August when Zliten, Khums and Tripoli fell under NTC control.
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A Human Rights Roadmap for a New Libya / january 2014
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/libya0114ForUpload_0.pdf
http://alrassedalliby.com/news/iSearch.aspx?key=%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84
casualties 2014-2015 : 10 pages
Tuesday, March 17 2015
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-libya-kidnapped-ukrainian-doctors/26907607.html
A group of 15 Ukrainian doctors captured by Islamic State (IS) militants in a hospital in the Libyan city of Sirte on March 16 were released a day later, on March 17 According to the ministry, officials from the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Libya are in contact with the doctors, and are attempting to help them secure their departure from the country.
It is as yet unclear whether the doctors will be able to depart.
Reports say that, although the Islamic State militants released the 20 kidnapped doctors, they have told them to stay in the area.
An official from the Ibn Sina hospital told CNN that the workers were sent to their homes near the medical facility. An Uzbek doctor, who was among those kidnapped by the militants, reportedly said that the gunmen told him he would be safe as long as he did not leave Sirte and treated any wounded militants.
but the snipers are foreigners, mostly from Belarus, Eastern Europe," says Sliman Bouchuiguir, secretary-general of the Libyan League of Human Rights.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/04/20114818291705627.html
Islamic State in Libya partially controls Sirte and attacked oil fields in Mabrouk, Bahi and Dahra – see pattern
https://twitter.com/DanieleRaineri/status/573518474900828160
https://twitter.com/generalshami472/status/579551921079513089
Sirte is under full IS control and the battles are in the outskirts of the city
22/03/2015
He was the boss of the criminal Ghanaiwa al-Kikli,
another thug with the Libya Dawn,
who has also committed scores of crimes against innocent people in the capital
and run a private prison where civilians were tortured and killed.
http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=11066
http://www.tripolipost.com/includes/newsresizedetails.asp?path=salah%20Berki%20terrorist.jpg
Abdel Ghani Alkkly aka (Gnjoh) /Gneoh Alkkla Chairman Abu Salim military.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R3vrCc2hHUE/USzBx8_eYUI/AAAAAAAAFPw/RcWNxy28IP8/s1600/%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A9.jpg
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25 march 2015
an independent body which would investigate human rights crimes in Libya
by all sides since 2012
In a joint call for action, 13 national, regional and international human rights organisations including five from Libya, have called on the UN to support the creation of an independent body which would investigate human rights crimes in Libya by all sides since 2012.
They say it is the only way to ensure “accountability, justice, truth and reparation”.
The groups say that the efforts of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) to address the situation in Libya through technical assistance no longer adequately reflectes the gravity of the situation.
http://www.libyaherald.com/2015/03/25/13-human-rights-groups-say-unhrc-not-getting-job-done-call-for-independent-mechanism-of-inquiry/
Hundreds of cases of alleged violations, including extrajudicial killings, widespread use of torture and arbitrary arrest have been submitted to Libya’s Attorney General over the past three years naming a number of armed groups but no concrete steps have been taken toward achieving accountability, the groups said.
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2015/03/washingtons-al-qaeda-ally-now-leading.html
ReplyDeletehttp://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-asset-joins-islamic-state-in-libya-abdelhakim-belhadj-worked-with-u-s-and-nato-to-overthrow-gaddafi%E3%80%80-%E3%80%80/5434923
6 sep. 2012 – Delivered Into Enemy Hands US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya.
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/libya0912webwcover_1.pdf
QE.L.11.01. Name: LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP
Last updated on: 19 February 2015
http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/AQList.htm
March 26, 2015
In a letter to General Secretary of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon,
representatives from nine Municipalities loyal to Libya Daw,
mainly mayors, are reported to have called on the UN
to indict Mahmoud Jibril, the leader of the National Forces Alliance …
https://www.libyaherald.com/2015/03/25/pro-dawn-municipalities-demand-un-brand-jibril-a-war-criminal/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4AboMZIgAAWHIY.jpg
Tripoli mayor Irish Harati standing in center
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811191128948513&set=a.239226526144979.57838.100001729008645&type=1
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/Data/articles/Art_20616/E_208_13_409304481.pdf
49. Mehdi al-Harati
2015 body count
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/LibyaBodyCount/status/573684299787935744
2014 body count
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4whyQIIEAEG5u3.png:large
https://twitter.com/LibyaBodyCount/status/543846802869747713
15 February until 17 February 2011
The names of individuals confirmed dead, many as a result of the use of live ammunition,
since the outbreak of protests on 15 February until 17 February 2011 are:
13 Killed in Benghazi (3 unidentified) and 40 to 50 injured
http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=664:libya-violence-against-demonstrators-by-armed-civilians-groups-leads-to-more-than-50-dead&catid=27:communiqu&Itemid=138
350 people have been killed. This dead toll did not include the grim discovery made
inside the army garrison head quarters (where ) we found 150 corpses burning
http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150326/txidrgvt.jpg
The barracks were at one time commanded according to this document
by Colonel Al-Jarih Farkash. Several nephews of Gaddafi were Captains at the base..
24 February 2011 “Open Letter to Ambassador Susan Rice,” by Genocide Watch
http://genocidewatch.net/2012/12/07/archived-updates-28/
http://genocidewatch.net/about-us-2/directors-and-advisors/
http://en.alkarama.org/iraq/666-libya-alkarama-calls-for-a-investigation-by-the-international-criminal-court-into-crimes-committed-by-colonel-gaddafi-and-his-two-sons
ReplyDelete21 February 2011 Libya: Alkarama calls for a investigation by the International Criminal Court into crimes committed by Colonel Gaddafi and his two sons
http://www.un.org/press/en/2011/sc10187.doc.htm
26 February 2011 SC/10187/Rev.1 In Swift, Decisive Action, Security Council Imposes Tough Measures on Libyan Regime, Adopting Resolution 1970 in Wake of Crackdown on Protesters
Mendez, an Argentine lawyer and American University visiting professor of international law in Washington, D.C., said he is teaming up for the probe with the UN's special rapporteur for extrajudicial executions and a panel of experts on disappearances.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/09/954234/-Witnessing-Revolution-Liveblog-142