According to reports coming out of the disputed city, a NATO air strike has hit a peace delegation in Brega, Libya, killing 11 Muslims clerics as they slept. Images of the slain imams were broadcast on Libyan state television.
The state media reported 16 people killed, including the imams, and 40 others wounded when an air strike hit the government “guest house” in the city. This was apparently where the peace delegation was staying.
NATO said it had no information about who was killed in Brega, but confirmed launching a number of air strikes against the city. They insisted the strikes targeted “command and control” centers and did serious damage to the military.
Control of Brega has been regularly contested by the rebels and the regime, and is currently mostly under regime control. It is one of only a handful of cities still being contested as the conflict has ended mostly in a stalemate.
Cause you know, eleven sleeping Imams MUST surely be a detriment to world order. Or NATO humanitarian intervention. Crap like this leaves a person wondering WTF???
The NATO command is as screwed up as Obama and his American forces. If they think that they can impose their military might on a civil war in another nation, they know nothing of history. When will our supposedly "civilized" nations start practicing what they preach and allow other countries to solve their own problems. Or else help the Shiites in Bahrain and the Palestinians in Israel obtain some degree of self determination.
No matter what NATO would not admit to its war crime.., as they did in Balkan wars so as in Iraq and Afghanistan.., yet it is up to ICC or for that matter Holden to look into US crimes against humanity as it taking place around the world.., not admiting to it.., but saying its done for democracy.., that makes me say the same thing as my friend here WTF???
nato humanitarian intervention? orwell warned us all! that spin is so penetrating…
The NATO butchers have taken a leaf out Ex U.K. prime minister Thatchers book,during the Falklands(MALVINAS) war peace talks were going on in Lima Peru, which did not suite Thatcher ,so she ordered an Argentinian training ship the BELGRANO be sunk even though it was outside the declared war zone and heading back to Argentina, also the uk had bean following it for 24 hours.Thatcher wanted to be seen as a strong with BLOOD on here hands. Now NATO are doing the same. There were 1000 young argentinians on that ship.The list of of war cimes by the USA ,UK and NATO just goes on and on. Forward to Arab INTERFADA world REVOLTION>
It is a wake up call that NATO has become such an aggressive military machine… Taking the no-fly resolution and expanding it into permission to bomb anything that exists! It seems that the ruling elites of europe are back in crusade mode… and intent on another demonstration Islamocide just to establish who is G-ds people or some such madness! I am feeling sorry fo the Mo…
Obviously NATO doesn't want the Libyans to arrange their own ceasefire.
SICKENING. I have to say that another article here in which Lt. Col. William J. Astore at Tom Engelhardt's column ("A New Age of Enlightened War") compared present day warfare with the mercantilist clashes of the 17th and 18th centuries – periods in which chattel slavery and colonialism were founded by European absolute monarchs, is a not-so-distant mirror to our times. The Peoples' curb on the actions of an entity like NATO for instance is non-existent. Not only that, what those latter day monarchs have wrought may come down on us or at least our troops, and it certainly makes us less secure rather than more so.
I uncovered the story of an "Indian" raid in which ancestors were either killed or captured and taken to Quebec because of a fight between Louis XIV and Queen Anne. These pioneers had built a stockade at Deerfield, but had not reckoned on a snowstorm to make climbing its walls a piece of cake for the French forces whose tomahawk-wielding grunts made short work of the sleeping English colonial families, including my own. Their children who were still at home (a brother who was my ancestor was an apprentice in another town), were taken to Canada and forcibly converted to Catholicism. A daughter of a minister became a famous captive of the Indians and refused to return. I think they updated the movie for The Searchers with John Wayne. What is the lesson here? As long as America was not independent, the royal wars would be fought on its territory.
I guess it is already here, if you count drone warfare conducted from US bases in this country. The lines are becoming blurred again. My swamp Yankee ancestors are stirring and I sense their dire warnings.
I wonder if there is some mythology in Islam about "Eleven Sleeping Imams" – it seems so Jungian and scary for the people who killed them. Some great penance must be done, or risk more generations of hate and destruction. Penance now, NATO, big time.
So this will be another case like Iraq where ordinary people say life was better off under their dictator than the "freedom" NATO and successive American Emperors of Planet Earth so desire for them.
I guess there is something wrong when socialist ideas like free health care, education for all etc, take root. Capitalist scum warmongers must drive them all out.
Obama, Bush: Why did you have to bother these people?
It is tragically ironic that Qaddafi himself warned them of that.
As bad of a criminal Bush is they said Obama would be worse.And he is proving them right.The US constitution says you can not go to war without congresses approval.The constitution is nop longer followed in any way by the criminal US government.Time for the US citizens to have a revolution not 1 million but at least 100 million people and the military needs to follow the constitution they swore to uphold since the government has become the main reason for unreast in the world.Them and Israel are the most hated countrys in the world.It's every Americans duty to ensure that the government follows the constitution.The revolution should have stearted years ago many years ago.The US is the most corrupt government in the world 9/11 was an inside job there is more than the proof needed you just have to study a good easy start is by watching loose change.Also to see how little they care about there own military please watch Beyond Treason.All you have to do is read and stop watching the news that is owned by criminals.They only tell you things that make them look good and if you go against the government your show will be cancelled.Please wake up you are loosing your freedoms and are headed for a police state.No one is above the law period.
You know Loose Change was a fictional screenplay, right?
At least it was until moronic viewers thought it was real.
The last thing NATO/US wants is a 'peace delegation'.
Holy shit! What a monumental fiasco!
NOT A SECOND OF COVERAGE OF THIS STORY ON ANY OF THE NATIONAL NEWS TONIGHT.
While I don't support this gong show of a war….I'm not going to freak out at every casualty from bombing either.
Even the most justified and moral conflicts will leave civilians dead – there are no exceptions to this. Thus far the level of casualties from NATO bombing in Libya have been remarkably light (hence the few images of dead on Libyan state TV, which would surely exploit such incidents if they were so common).
I can't imagine how today's generation would have responded to the 20,000 French civilians we killed with bombing in the run-up bombardment before D-Day.
Another well-off Arab country destroyed, as Iraq was. "Democracy" turning Libya into a hellhole, as it did with Iraq. It's all so horrible.
Nato/USA is running out of targets. Many thousands of civilians will die. Who are these 'rebels' asking for western support and accepting the slaughter of their countrymen ?