British officials familiar with the situation said that NATO was prepared to start attacking the rebels in East Libya if reports of growing attacks against civilians did not cease. They insisted that the UN resolution used as a pretext for war authorized such strikes on anyone threating civilians.
A report earlier this week by Human Rights Watch detailed that forces loyal to the East Libyan rebel faction were summarily detaining civilians they suspect of disloyalty and that at least one had died of torture.
The UN panel charged with investigating the civil war agreed as well, with a report early last week saying that both sides had committed war crimes during the conflict. Though operating in the name of pro-democracy protesters, the rebel leadership is largely made up of defectors from the Gadhafi regime.
The rebel council slammed the comments, saying “we object to being threatened by our allies. They are taking part in military action only at our invitation.” Though NATO has been claiming rebel support a number of protesters objected to their involvement, fearing it would devolve into an unending war. With NATO already at war with half the country and threatening the other half, this fear seems hard to dispute.
So now NATO is going to shoot their allies. Geez, you can't make this stuff up. Whadda war!
What's next?
Maybe they will simplfy things by just shooting everybody.
Exactly, let God sort them out. Hmm. Where did I hear it before?
I think NATO needs to attack its own ministry and populated area in Köpenhagen or Brussels or Paris or for that matter London, because they are bombing the populated area in Tripoli killing innocent people as they always have .., while they are at it they can also bomb Stockholm, or Oslo.., just to find out how dose it feel to be bombed.
It is 1984 – isn't it?
Has everyone in NATO gone insane?
"They are taking part in military action only at our invitation."
LOL!
one can only hope this will devolve into a rift between the rebels and NATO and lead to the dissolution of their plans to steal Libya's oil and turn Libya into a forward operating base to replace Egypt. If there were any justice in the world it would be Fogh rasmussen and all the other NATO collaborators who would be dodging bombs right now.
A man had a rat problem so his pal told him to get a wildcat. Then he had a wildcat problem so his friend told him to get a wolf. Then he had a wolf problem so his friend told him to get a bear. Then he had a bear problem so his friend told him to get an alligator. Eventually of course there's no more problem because there's no more man to have it.
Fascists don't have allies. They have victims and potential victims. That's it. It's the nature of predation.
NATO is now the method to start a war without the mess of the United Nations. NATO is basically the old colonial powers which has screwed up the world for the last 300 years. How long can the world continue with this insane organization. NATO is no longer a defensive organization. It is a monster of war. It has no mission other than attack and today when I read they are going to attack the side that they were support in Libya it became official that they are crazy. The United Nations is the organization which should control these matters.
"…only at our invitation." My, my. Are they going to be really surprised when reality smacks them upside the head. As stated above, NATO is the mechanism now to thwart the supposed requirement to get a declaration of war from the US Congress – not that that really mattered anymore as Congress has decided that if they don't bother then they can't be held responsible. Another story – another time tho.
NATO, a defensive amalgam of old and new western colonial powers, is being used by their MIC owners to expand their resources by eliminating those autocracies that don't want to play by the new rules. And as far as the UN goes, when they created their "Army" back in the 1950's, they lost their right to call themselves an organization for world peace. Again, the UN became a tool of the MIC to bypass regulations imposed on them by individual governments. Under the umbrella of "UN Mandates and Resolutions" the Archons of the MIC are free to wage conquest and conflagration wherever they please.
Both organizations need to be severely shackled or eliminated. Both organizations have outlived their own mandates. Neither organization is interested in peace regardless of what they say in public chambers.
Obama bomb everybody! Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, where are the mass protests? The marches for Peace? Where are the college students calling him 'war criminal' and 'fascist' and burning him in effigy?
More importantly, where is "The Lion Of The Desert" when you need him?
Everybody sick and tired.
Because we fell asleep at the wheel and now we are no better off than in a dictatership. In the US and Canada if we protest we get beaten and taken away, the governments of the western world have made it so.
Nato should bomb the civilians who resist the rebel terrorists, as Nato's only aim is OIL and RESOURCES for free.
They are same as HITLER
Just as I predicted. The NATO action is a colonisation of Libya tp preserve its resources for Western oligarchs and plutocrats. The UN action gave it the minimal legal cover to start and then mission creep does the rest.
black is white, up is down, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Is this some sort of sick joke?
“Personal foul, Unnecessary roughness, on the Libyan rebels. That will be 15 drone strikes on Misrata”
“First down Qaddafi”
I have sided with the Libyan government on this matter since day one but this is insanity beyond reason.
Where is the outrage from Russia and China, where is it!!!
Anyone who knows anything nows it was never to save civilians.Look at Afganistan,Iraq and Pakistan.Iknew the rebels were most likely more evil that there government and Knew NATO was ging to do to Lybia what has been done to Others just did'nt now witch aproach would be taken to stab the so called allies in the back for oil money and poplulation control.The US and friends fight for oil but a great writer I read is Steve Berry I also real loved reading Dan Browns novels.But in the secound last book wrote by Berry hows books are alot of true history mixed with fiction anyway here is a real true part from the back of the book that seperates fact fron fiction will continue with part i'm speaking of bbefor I run out of room.
Anyway this is it coming from someone that tells what is fact with no baias so hear it is.(Raymond Learsy,in his book Over a Barrel,Wrote,Nothing lasts:not fame,fortune,beauty,love,youth,or life itself.Scarcity rules.Accordingly,scarcity- or accurately,the perception of scarcity-spells oppertunity for manipulators.The best example of this is OPEC,whitch continues to extract obscene profits from a scarcity of its own creation.Learsy,though.leaves no dought.He,and many others,the Russians included,are absolutly convinced.Oil is not scarse.We only fear that it is.Now after me learning this I thought all this oil did'nt come from dinosors and other longe dead animals the reason it's named fossel fuel.It was eather always there and most likely the earth continues tyo make more.Agreed with buy lots of expert scientists around the world.We are all getting killed and killing well the evil people in charge rip every one of and lauph when we die and fight witch ois another money maker for the military industrial complex.Please lets wakew up and fix things.They have no choice but to obey the 6 billion people that if togeather demanded change not Obama style.
Canadfa is my country and I love it but we need to stay out of the illegal wars the US drages us into.We need to find away not to get as strone a the US but have the weapons not to fear telling them on when they are wrong.The US has about 340 million people Canada has less than 40 million and all the resorses for probably 1000 years if we don't let the US behind the scenes to force us to comply and get riped for are natural resorces.In canafda we have 1 quarter of the worlds drinking weater that also aside fron oil we supply the US with drinkable water.We beat them before and could do it again if threatend because wee would have the world on are side and we are the secound biggest country in the world aftewr Russia.