Rebel leadership in the East Libyan city of Ajdabiyah reported overnight that NATO air strikes targeted a group of rebel fights in the nearby village of Amreer Gabs, wounding at least 16 and destroying six vehicles.
Officials initially said they were unsure if the attack was by Gadhafi warplanes or NATO, but now say it was almost certainly another accidental strike by NATO forces, the latest in a number of “friendly fire” incidents.
NATO said it was unable to confirm or deny the attack because they “did not have personnel on the ground in Libya.” They did however confirm that they were aware of the report and promised to investigate.
Though NATO has threatened in the past to attack the rebels, it does not appear that this would have been a deliberate attempt to do so. The fact that they have been unable to even avoid hitting allies with which they are in fairly regular contact makes their claims of minimal civilian deaths extremely difficult to believe, however.
It seams that every president needs to have a war under his name.., is there a wall of fame somewhere in Washington or a room hidden at democratic party or for that matter Republican party that asks for presidents to start a war to be remembered..?
US been at war for last 60 years from Vietnam to South America and now Libya.., non of these countries been attacking US.., by doing so US has lost its credibility almost everywhere.., my question to US democracy or US democratic party is: when a enough is enough for you people to weak up and stop producing such president who day after election slaps your face and thereby democracy itself by starting another war and lying to people.., when a enough is enough for US stop warmongering around the world and start helping nations by not being in war with them. Everyone including Mr. Barack Hussein Obama and the rest of you “democrats” knows that Libyan war is not about democracy nor the Muslims Brotherhood would produce such regime in Libya, everyone knows that this war is about African Union and everyone knows that this war is personal, demanded by Saudis and Arab Emirates against Mr. Kaddafi as it was a personal war against Saddam Hussein, everyone knows that what is called Muslims Brotherhood have their terrorist affiliations with them and active in Libya while US have declared war against them. So when enough is enough for US and NATO to start backtracking their own history and see that US/NATO have come nowhere with all these wars.., you want peace in Middle East search for the real problem, you want peace and not being involved in more wars look into you relations’ with those who take you to wars.., in the other hand if peace is not desired and is not on your agendas then be my and millions of other guest start the third world war and let monkeys build a new world.
Every time the USA "demands" that other countries follow its step on the way to the "True Democracy" , my fellow-compatriots in Russia have a huge belly laugh. Although it is true that corruption in Russia is rampant, to hear the USA praising its own "unblemished" records seems more than hypocritical to us, "poor oppressed Russian masses".
Wake up, America. You used to be a beacon of Democracy to the world. Stop killing people, you can't convince them to be "good" with the gun at their head.
Oops!
Wonder if this was a follow thru on the threat to turn guns on Libyan rebels over civilian attacks?
Nah, couldn't be, not those democratic reformers / revolutionaries we're supposed to fall in love with?
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/08/nato-threatens…