Citing the lingering stalemate in Libya, a number of top Western officials are raising the prospect of assassinating Moammar Gadhafi as a means of either winning the war or escalating it, depending on which they were advocating.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) said assassinating Gadhafi would be the “quickest” way to end the stalemate, while John McCain (R – AZ) said it should be the first step toward increasing the number of US air strikes in Libya. Graham in particular had been calling for the assassination for weeks.
Officials have speculated that the assassination would be much easier now that the US has added Predator drones to the war. The first such strike was reported over the weekend.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he wouldn’t rule out the assassination, but that the decision of whether or not to kill Gadhafi or anyone else “depends on their behavior.” Officials have differed over whether the war, which is nominally the result of a UN call for a no-fly zone, should include such assassinations.
Bomb Gadhafi, Bomb Afghanistan, Bomb Iraq, Bomb Heroshima, Looks like American people know nothing except for bombing on people.
American sheeple is lead by a bunch of psychopaths, Charles Manson is a boy scout compared to McCain /
Now the true colours of the terrorists attacking Libya are being revealed.
So its OK for the Western Nations to advocate the killing of a foreign Head Of State but what an outcry there would be if a foreign Government were to advocate killing OBAMA or CAMERON or NAPOLEON of France???
These "western leaders" are murderers to advocate the murder a head of state is this what they have become. Ah trained by the israelis what rubbish in the form of humans.
The Anglo-America elite expose their criminal natures- you gotta love it. Undermining their biggest myth- the "Rule of Law."
In the final analysis- nothing but grubby mafioso.
Graham, McCain, and Billy 'the kid' Hague. "ASSASSINATE!" Per usual. Graham and the McLunatic you sort of expect the warmongering. But the 'new' kid on the state-sponsored terrorism block would be, Hague? Cameron's go-to boy for all things genocidal.
Seems that Graham and the McLoony would have better things to talk about than assassination. I mean, Wikileaks dumped the poop about Guantanamo. State-sponsored murder, wars of naked aggression, AND torture.
Hmmm, I guess if our "fine" senators can't fix the American economy well, they might as well destroy our world.
To them asassinating comes by so easily. It only shows the rotten nature of both their souls and the system they defend.
killing is what the west does. and lying. and stealing.
What ells can they do.., they brought in the terrorism to Libya then they stuck with it.., they tried to change the regime the stuck with it, they went to Iraq and Afghanistan they stuck with the idiocy of Paul Wolfowitz.., they started the fake democratization where people all over the world knows is a fake gesture and they stuck with it.., so what is left.., let burn the entire world until there is nothing left for people to live for.., while at it kill Kaddafi or Syrian leaders, Iranian Leaders, Lebanon Leaders, Iraqi Leaders, Pakistan and Afghanistan.., so as Saudi Arabia and others too.., if that would satisfy US/EU militarism regimes and their idiocy ideologue as Sarkozi, Cameron, Labor party, Swedish right wing Rainfeld, Carl Rove, Richard Pearl, Hillary Clinton so be it. If not then US and EU needs to prosecute these people for war crimes against humanity by the way of a fake democracy.., starting all this madness for the capitalism gain fro last 60 years, here is the lists: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, Donald Rumsfeled, Hennery Kissinger, Hillary Clinton.., these names are just a tip of a ice berg it is up to state department, pentagon and Brussels hypocrisy to name the rest.., they should have a list of everyone.., because they were on their payrolls and some still are. Westren Democracy.., what democracy…?
The West has demonized Gadhafi so much in these past few weeks they have no choice but to assassinate him or otherwise make him disappear; to do anything less will expose Western leaders for their hypocrisy and overheated imaginations-and of course we can't have that. Obviously, just as in the case of Saddam Hussein, this man must die for the sins of the West.
I have no particular love for Gadhafi, but right now all I feel for him is pity- pity that he is being made a scapegoat for the evils of Western intervention and for doing exactly what any Western nation would do when faced with an armed revolution- put it down with as much force as necessary. Yes, there were missteps made in the early days- on both sides of the revolution- but Western greed for oil and what passes for national prestige these days has triumphed over all else. If Americans were to take to the streets, first unarmed then later armed to the teeth and more than willing to use their firepower, do you think for one minute the US government would hesitate to issue orders authorizing shoot-to-kill methods?
Gadhafi, sadly, must die. I hope you're all happy about that while you're filling up your SUV with Libyan oil he will be paying for with his life.
bomb england and get rid of themost vile evil govct int he world
wth that cooment by the british foreing minster isit anywoder if any one wishes for the destgruction and bombing of england. why not assasinate war monger tony bastard blair /one can ask? what a shambles of un the entity which is shemlessly letting such vile nations like england use it for its aggressiona gasint other countries.
britian which lives off stolen money from russia and other countries(brought by elites who stole theier nations wealth ) sauch country like britian also lives by blood money as in case of lockerbie disaster.
Lockerbie Bombing: Libya was Framed
by Linda S. Heard
On December 21 1988, a Pan Am plane mysteriously exploded over Scotland causing the death of 270 people from 21 countries. The tragedy provoked global outrage. In 1991, two Libyans were charged with the bombing.
In the event, only Abdulbaset Ali Mohammad Al Megrahi, a Libyan agent, was pronounced guilty by a panel of three judges, who based their decision on largely circumstantial evidence. Al Megrahi and the Libyan government have protested their innocence all along.
Nevertheless, after suffering punitive UN sanctions which froze overseas Libyan bank accounts and prevented the import of spare parts needed for the country's oil industry, Tripoli reluctantly agreed to pay $2.7 billion to victims? families ($10 million per family), on condition the pay-out would not be deemed as admission of guilt.
In February, 2004, the Libyan prime minister told the BBC that his country was innocent but was forced to pay-up as a "price for peace".
Al Megrahi is currently serving a life sentence but earlier this year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled there may have been a miscarriage of justice on the basis of lost or destroyed evidence.
Later this month, a Scottish appeals court is due to revisit the case and is expected to overturn Al Megrahi's conviction as unsafe.
The Libyan leader's son Saif Al Islam recently said he is confident Al Megrahi will soon be found innocent and will be allowed to return home.
On Sunday, an Observer expose written by Alex Duval Smith reported "a key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake" with allegations of "international political intrigue and shoddy investigative work" levelled at "the British government, the FBI and the Scottish police".
The Observer story maintains Ulrich Lumpert a Swiss engineer who was "a crucial witness" has now confessed that he lied about the origins of a timer switch.
Recently, Lumpert gave a sworn declaration to a Swiss court, which read "I stole a prototype MST-13 timing device" and "gave it without permission on June 22, 1989 to a person who was officially investigating the Lockerbie affair".
The owner of the company that manufactured the switch – forced into bankruptcy after being sued by Pan Am – says he told police early in the enquiry that the timer switch was not one his company had ever sold to Libya.
Moreover, he insists the timer switch shown to the court had been tampered with since he initially viewed it in Scotland, saying the pieces appeared to have been "carbonised" in the interim. He also says the court was so determined to prove Libya's guilt it brushed aside his evidence.
In 2005, a former Scottish police chief signed a statement alleging the CIA had planted fragments of a timer circuit board produced at trial, evidence supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent to the effect his agency "wrote the script" to ensure Libya was incriminated.
There are also allegations that clothing allegedly purchased by the bomber in Malta before it was wrapped around the bomb, was intact when discovered but by the time it reached the court it was in shreds.
Life sentence
The shopkeeper who sold the item made a statement to the effect Al Megrahi had never been a customer. Instead, he identified an Egyptian-born Palestinian Mohammad Abu Talb – now serving a life sentence in Sweden for a synagogue bombing.
Professor Hans Koechler, appointed by the UN to be an observer at the trial, has termed its outcome "a spectacular miscarriage of justice". Koechler has repeatedly called for an independent enquiry, which, to date, the British government has refused to allow.
Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, insists "no court is likely to get to the truth, now that various intelligence agencies have had the opportunity to corrupt the evidence".
Jim Swire, the father of one of the Lockerbie victims, said "Scottish justice obviously played a leading part in one of the most disgraceful miscarriages of justice in history."
Craig Murray, a former British ambassador, who was earlier second-in-command of Britain's Aviation and Maritime Department from 1989 to 1992, writes about a strange incident on his website.
Murray says a colleague told him "in a deeply worried way" about an intelligence report indicating Libya was not involved in the Pan Am bombing. When he asked to see it, his colleague said it was marked for named eyes only, which Murray describes as "extremely unusual". Earlier, a CIA report that had reached a similar conclusion had been conveniently buried.