NATO officials announced today that they “strongly deny” the accusation that air strikes against the suburb of Sorman killed at least 15 civilians in Libya today, saying they hadn’t launched any strikes in Sorman.
Libyan officials said that the attack against Sorman killed three children and 12 other civilians, hitting the home of a Revolution Command Council member and two adjacent houses. Journalists were shown the rubble of the homes.
The denial comes just one day after NATO officials admitted to another attack in Tripoli, which killed at least nine civilians including two small children. Officials blamed that attack on a “weapons system failure.”
Civilian deaths have been an extremely controversial aspect of NATO’s war against Libya, which was nominally started to “protect civilians.” Yesterday’s admission was the first time NATO actually conceded they had killed civilians, though a number of previous incidents have been independently confirmed, including by top Catholic Church officials in the capital.
This is crazy. NATO has already been quoted as saying that this strike was a carefully watched major command and control center that was destroyed on purpose: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/20/501364/…
The White House has officially declared that what’s happening in Libya is not “hostilities.”
But at the Pentagon, officials have decided it’s unsafe enough there to give troops extra pay for serving in “imminent danger.”
The Defense Department decided in April to pay an extra $225 a month in “imminent danger pay” to service members who fly planes over Libya or serve on ships within 110 nautical miles of its shores.
If you believe in this then you must believe that there is no war nor there is any bombardments of any kind by NATO taking place in Libya.., nor there is any Libya exist nor there is any NATO.., this is a heavenly and a "gesture in peace" bombardments made possible by France, England and US.., and off course there is this man Rasmussen from Denmark which makes things up for you to believe that there is no war., lying is part of their daily business, it has become a routine and a daily matter for these obtuse to make a fool out of themselves acting like a drunken monkey calling themselves a leader.., they are a leader alright.., of the drunken monkey tribe somewhere out of this world.
Strange with that denial since it was news in Denmark (a member of the NATO force present) today that there WAS this bombing. That it probably was to get a man who had known and supported Gaddafi for years, but he was not at home. A danish journalist visited the massively bombed farm and saw nothing resembling military installations. http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-40962175:d… You can see the bombed farm on the video.
There's a standard pattern here that's been constant for at least 10 years.
–Reports come in from abroad of American attrocities in killing civilians.
–The Pentagon denies completely that anything happened. Usually they claim the report is enemy propaganda.
— That story usually quickly starts to fall apart. Often, some non-American reporters get to the scene and report that the original reports were largely correct.
— Pentagon usually has some fall-back story that they unveil as the first story collapses as obvious lies. The second story is usually something like a 'weapons' failure, or a failure of communications or some other excuse for why they just murdered a bunch of innocent people.
— The second story also usually starts to fall apart.
— At some point the Pentagon will just stop talking about it. And whatever limited attention the US press had paid to it will die off. The foreign press will stay on the story a little longer. But, usually there will soon be new reports of a new American attrocity, and the cycle will begin again with the Pentagon claiming that all claims of civilian deaths are lies. But, maybe this time the fall back story will be that the enemy killed these civilians and then blamed on the US as a part of their evil plot to rule the world.
After watching this for years, if a Pentagon spokesperson told me the sun was going to set in the west tomorrow, I'd go outside in the evening to watch before I believed it.