tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post9068567974540415379..comments2024-03-18T22:03:28.458-07:00Comments on Monitor on Massacre Marketing: African Mercenaries: In Mythology and RealityCaustic Logichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-53609093831861993092012-12-25T16:26:26.066-08:002012-12-25T16:26:26.066-08:00Ahmed Shebani Member of the Libyan Freedom and De...Ahmed Shebani Member of the Libyan Freedom and Democracy Campaign 28th April 2011<br /><br />LFDC : They have hired mercenary army and foreign warriors from African countries, North Korea, Tunis and Egypt.<br /><br />The airplanes that brought them were chartered Novel air from Tunis as reported from reliable sources. <br /><br />Many seniors in the government and army officers are very upset and against the regime. Most of them have switched sides.<br /><br />Mercenaries are clearly shooting at the head, neck and chest which means bluntly they want to kill the protesters. <br />And these protesters are peaceful and unarmed.<br /><br />*<br />Ahmed Shebani's connections :<br /><br />http://www.shalomlife.com/news/14702/exclusive-interview-with-organization-behind-libyas-revolution/<br /><br />http://www.cjnews.com/sites/default/files/files/eCJN/2011/09%2001%2011%20MTL.pdf<br /><br />http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/libya.html<br /><br />http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=9578&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=1ffcbhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-5516951023253343062012-10-21T14:47:44.581-07:002012-10-21T14:47:44.581-07:00Mr. Nokour and his wife left Chad in 1996, and wer...Mr. Nokour and his wife left Chad in 1996, and were accepted into Canada as political refugees. <br /><br />In March, 2011, while still in Chad, he received a phone call from an old friend, Khalifa Haftar, once one of Gaddafi’s top army commanders.<br /> <br /><br /><br />He called upon Mr. Nokour for assistance. Could he assemble a Chadian militia?<br /><br />He/Nokour went to Egypt instead, and then crossed into eastern Libya. His militia was assembled there. Mr. Nokour was made commander, and was responsible to Gen. Haftar. His group moved around the countryside for months, engaging Libyan forces, fighting battles.<br /><br />http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/19/muammar-gaddafi-death-anniversary/<br /><br />Mr. Nokour left his command but remains in the country, where he continues to plot against President Déby, still in control next door. hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-746201954789758612012-07-12T19:31:49.980-07:002012-07-12T19:31:49.980-07:00According to Khaled, more than 400 prisoners escap...According to Khaled, more than 400 prisoners escaped Abu Salim in four separate break-outs prior to and after the incident:<br /> in July 1995, December 1995, June 1996 and July 2001.<br /><br />Among the escapees were men who then fought with Islamist militant groups in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, he said.<br />*<br />http://www.presstv.ir/detail/196007.html<br />From 690 proisoners escaped buslim yesterday 540 were al qaeda memberhurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-34821294604969283582012-07-12T18:22:03.554-07:002012-07-12T18:22:03.554-07:00After 2011 with estimated 100.000 deads about whom...After 2011 with estimated 100.000 deads about whom you hear no ngo now :<br /><br /><br />One wonders if the International Criminal Court, ICC, heard anything about any of the thousands of abuses, murders, and rapes committed by the same people who revolted to create a new democratic Libya. Did prosecutor Mr. Ocampo read Amnesty International’s latest report?<br />http://globalciviliansforpeace.com/2012/07/11/the-fate-of-twaragha-people-in-new-libya/<br /><br /><br />2012 Failed States Index Released: Libya, Japan and Syria Tumble<br /><br />.Other notable changes this year include countries affected by the Arab Spring. Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia all ranked significantly worse than the previous year. <br /><br />Libya's decline was the most remarkable, with the country registering the worst year-on-year worsening in the history of the FSI as a result of civil war, a NATO-led campaign of airstrikes and the toppling of the Qaddhafi regime<br /><br />http://www.marketwatch.com/story/2012-failed-states-index-released-libya-japan-and-syria-tumble-2012-06-18hurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-74701873081719569882012-07-12T18:17:14.332-07:002012-07-12T18:17:14.332-07:00Abu saleem 1996 : No official list of the dead exi...Abu saleem 1996 : No official list of the dead exists. The number has been gleaned from families who knew their son or brother was in the wing of the prison where the massacre took place, and from eyewitnesses.<br /><br /><br />Also notice the user’s avatar wherein he invokes the ‘Abu Salim massacre’, an event toted by globalist-Zionist funded Human Rights Watch as the trump card in the propaganda war against Libya.<br /><br /> Abu Salim is an event for which there is no physical evidence, and HRW’s report on the event hinges on the testimony of one person who is now residing in the United States.<br /> <br />Laughably, HRW even admits that they cannot independently verify a single detail of the man’s claims.<br /><br />http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/08/uscentcom-buys-software-to-impersonate-social-networkers-blogosphere-shows-tell-tale-signs-amid-war-on-libya/hurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-13792198012694753922012-07-12T18:03:59.160-07:002012-07-12T18:03:59.160-07:00The migrant workers :
Human Rights Watch and ...The migrant workers : <br /><br />Human Rights Watch and other NGOs have begun documenting the arbitrary arrests of immigrant workers accused of being mercenaries loyal to Gaddafi. Have they begun?<br /><br />http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/article.cfm?id=5410&cat=briefing-documents<br /> a million migrants milling around in Libya, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, all paperless with no ID, <br /><br />Some stayed alive :<br />TRIPOLI, Libya - Alive in Libya talks with the Happy House Cleaning <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX5Waw6_X1M&feature=plcp<br /><br />while after the disappearance of the migrant workers in 2011 the Arabs try to get new migrants inside :<br />http://www.theworld.org/2012/06/libya-migrant-labor/hurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-82089808448359162502012-07-12T17:59:44.889-07:002012-07-12T17:59:44.889-07:00How many Tuaregs& dark skinned army men are...How many Tuaregs& dark skinned army men are slaughtered?<br /> how many ppl from east europe , working in Libiya are killed?<br /><br /><br />http://f-se.blogspot.pt/2012/01/f-se-truth-emerged-from-lies-do-you.html<br /><br />"Certainly Gaddafi uses mercenaries from abroad and from the foreign community in Libya. <br /><br />In Misurata, there are reports that the Africans are on the frontline, but the snipers are foreigners, mostly from Belarus, Eastern Europe," says Sliman Bouchuiguir, secretary-general of the Libyan League of Human Rights.<br /> <br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/04/20114818291705627.html<br /><br />*<br /><br />Well before the outbreak of hostilities in Libya in February 2011, there were long-standing reports of Gaddafi’s use of Chadian soldiers, Tuareg warriors from northwest Africa, and other non-Libyan combatants, within the Libyan military, notably the Khamis Brigade, fronted by one of Gaddafi’s sons. <br /><br />http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93763/LIBYA-Sub-Saharan-migrants-keep-their-heads-down<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98G8nZjF6d8&feature=plcphurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-90651871223566843452012-07-12T17:54:56.203-07:002012-07-12T17:54:56.203-07:00150,000 mercenaries ? really ? what happened to t...150,000 mercenaries ? really ? what happened to them? <br /><br />,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]. <br /><br />According to the Qatari satellite channel, Al-Jazeera, Gaddafi's regime has brought approximately 50,000 mercenaries to Tripoli, and about 150,000 mercenaries throughout Libya[2].<br /><br />As well as firing live bullets to kill Libyan protesters, some of the mercenary groups are distinguished by their yellow helmets. <br /><br />In the past few days, a number of videos posted on the internet show them in action and reveal their presence in the country.<br /><br /> Such violent scenes are seen taking place in Benghazi, a city in the east and controlled by the protesters. Several witnesses have also claimed that they were setting fires to buildings in order to give an impression of a chaotic atmosphere in the country.<br /><br /><br />http://www.afrik-news.com/article19079.html<br /><br />http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2000/gaddafi-mercenaries-in-libya#_ftn1<br />Gatestone Institute is funded by private donors and foundations. <br /><br />*<br /><br /> International Federation of Human Rights ,Human Rights Solidarity <br /><br />http://hrcpblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/international-federation-for-human-rights-fidh-libyan-league-for-human-rights-llh/<br /><br />http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/how-a-fatal-twitter-message-opens-the-doors-to-a-much-wanted-war-against-libya/<br /><br />*hurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-91423338943143794052012-04-28T08:29:05.125-07:002012-04-28T08:29:05.125-07:00Here is another sad piece of propaganda by BBC fro...Here is another sad piece of propaganda by BBC from August 27:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14693343" rel="nofollow">Gaddafi's African 'mercenaries' leaving Libya</a><br /><br />The story is about the persecution of Libya's African migrant workers, but every second paragraph libels them of being "mercenaries."Petri Krohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630751579069253718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-56703425935614452932012-04-27T21:41:56.795-07:002012-04-27T21:41:56.795-07:00@Petri - the MWC (no conscience in this case) arti...@Petri - the MWC (no conscience in this case) article is a straight copy of an <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/02/2011225133345917205.html" rel="nofollow">Al Jazeera propaganda article</a>felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-14206684810553414522012-04-27T21:21:49.553-07:002012-04-27T21:21:49.553-07:00I was looking for something else, when I came acro...I was looking for something else, when I came across <a href="http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/africa/north/libya/mercenaries.jpg" rel="nofollow">this photo</a>. It is used in an article from February 25th by MWC News (Media with Conscience). As their "featured author" the site names Israel Shamir. In their list of opinion pieces I recognize number three, Stephen Lendman. From the titles of the other articles it is clear that MWC News is a leftist, anti-war, anti-imperialist site if there ever was one. Yet they came up with this.<br /><br /><a href="http://mwcnews.net/news/africa/8897-libyan-forces-shoot-protesters.html" rel="nofollow">Libyan forces shoot protesters</a><br />Friday, 25 February 2011 08:16, By Agencies<br /><br />The author of the article is not named, it is simply attributed to "agencies." The contents is a collection of anti-Gaddafi, pro-intervention propaganda. <br /><br /><em>"The security forces fired indiscriminately on the demonstrators," said a resident of one of the capital's eastern suburbs that has seen previous clashes between opponents of the regime and its remaining loyalists.</em><br /><br />...<br /><br /><em>The death toll since violence began remains unclear, though on Thursday Francois Zimeray, France's top human rights official, said it could be as high as 2,000 people killed.</em><br /><br /><em>Clashes were also reported in the city of Misurata, located 200km east of Tripoli, where witnesses said a pro-Gaddafi army brigade attacked the city's airport with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.<br /><br />They said that pro-democracy protesters had managed to fight off that attack.<br /><br />"The people's spirits here are high, they are celebrating and chanting 'God is Greatest'," he told the Reuters news agency by telephone.</em><br /><br />What "pro-democracy protesters?" Why not just call them Islamist pro-intervention protesters and rebels?<br /><br />The article does not mention "African mercenaries," except that the photo of black Libyan captives at the Benghazi courthouse is named <a href="http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/africa/north/libya/mercenaries.jpg" rel="nofollow"><i>mercenaries.jpg</i></a><br /><br />***<br /><br />A Google image search for the photo reveals the source: An article by Richard Pendlebury in the Daily Mail in on the same day.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360457/Libya-Inside-Benghazi-court-Gaddafis-mercenaries.html" rel="nofollow">Outside the rebels were jubilant. Inside the court I came face to face with Gaddafi's savage mercenaries: RICHARD PENDLEBURY files this dramatic dispatch from Benghazi</a><br />UPDATED: 09:26 GMT, 25 February 2011<br /><br /><em>They were a pretty sorry bunch, these ‘Gaddafi mercenaries’. Assembled for my inspection in a scruffy, whitewashed room on the top floor of the courthouse building in ‘free’ Benghazi, six West African men shuffled nervously under the stern gaze of Arab youths.</em><br /><br />Richard Pendlebury does not quite by all the "mercenary" claims, but other than that, the story is pure revolutionary propaganda.Petri Krohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630751579069253718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-74714030849641145502012-02-03T19:07:44.444-08:002012-02-03T19:07:44.444-08:00HRH Mohamed Hilal El Senussi , grand nephew of Kin...HRH Mohamed Hilal El Senussi , grand nephew of King Idris, the last king of Libya:<br /><br />In Baida, over 100 perished in the hands of Ghadafi-employed African mercenaries from Chad, Niger and Mali, prompting local police forces and members of the army to break ranks from the regime to protect their unarmed countrymen. <br /><br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/libyan-tea-party/hurriyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-19924087121189167952012-02-03T08:44:40.043-08:002012-02-03T08:44:40.043-08:00Here is a video of African mercenaries arrested in...Here is a video of African mercenaries arrested in Beni Walid on October 17th.<br /><br />القبض علي مرتزقة أفارقة داخل مدينة بنى وليد<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7OnH6BUS4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7OnH6BUS4</a><br />Uploaded by TheSlowdeath13 on Oct 18, 2011<br /><em>A group of African mercenaries were arrested by the rebels when they entered the town of Beni Walid and release it from the remnants of the battalion on October 17, 2011</em>Petri Krohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630751579069253718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-50541916918558204362012-01-21T08:44:07.495-08:002012-01-21T08:44:07.495-08:00Thanks Petri - no human rights abuses there then, ...Thanks Petri - no human rights abuses there then, clearly....felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-23810005005500758692012-01-21T08:20:41.214-08:002012-01-21T08:20:41.214-08:00Here is a new article on the fate of African guest...Here is a new article on the fate of African guest workers in Libya by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro of NPR from December 13th.<br /><br /><a href="http://kasu.org/post/african-migrants-caught-brutal-libyan-limbo" rel="nofollow">African Migrants Caught In Brutal Libyan Limbo</a><br /><br /><em>"They tied our hands behind our backs, beat us up and locked us in jail," Igbinosa recalls. "I told them I was not a fighter, but they could not believe us. They treat us so badly there, so many people even died inside the prison there."</em>Petri Krohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630751579069253718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-6903714141598266742011-10-30T12:02:59.471-07:002011-10-30T12:02:59.471-07:00http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13576988...http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13576988/Die-Maer-von-schwarzafrikanischen-Gaddafi-Soeldnern.htmlTonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12360057796794072424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-6807211402795773842011-10-30T10:55:32.653-07:002011-10-30T10:55:32.653-07:00http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Libyen...http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Libyen/polisario.htmlTonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12360057796794072424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-82141417704639964692011-10-21T02:34:29.922-07:002011-10-21T02:34:29.922-07:00The US ABC Article from 22 Feb is interesting; the...The US <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/libya-benghazi-doctor-gadhafi-foreign-mercenaries-quell-protests/story?id=12972216" rel="nofollow">ABC Article from 22 Feb</a> is interesting; the video shows a bloody man at 00.22 but no, his wife has been shot in the head. Allegedly. No sign of here. More interesting is the sister in Tripoli of Hafed Al Ghwell, who tells her brother :<br /><i>"They are African mercenaries, a least a big chunk of them,"</i> he said.<br />So who is Mr al-Ghwell? <b>Hafed Al Ghwell is Libyan-American analyst. He is a senior strategy officer and communication advisor at the World Bank Group in Washington DC and the former Director of External Affairs with the Dubai School of Government. </b> However, he has written a <a href="http://english.libya.tv/2011/09/01/will-libya%e2%80%99s-revolution-and-wealth-be-a-blessing-or-a-curse/" rel="nofollow">fascinating article</a> <b>Libya’s revolution & wealth – a blessing or a curse?</b> but somehow I don't think he will be rushing back.felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.com