Angry pro-regime demonstrators took to the streets of Tripoli on Sunday following the announcement that a Saturday NATO air strike killed Saif al-Arab al-Gadhafi and three of Moammar Gadhafi’s grandchildren.
The protesters attacked numerous Western embassies, including the British and Italian ones. They also attacked a UN building, prompting the UN to evacuate all foreign staff. Britain summoned the Libyan ambassador over the destruction.
The Gadhafi government expressed “regret” at the destruction caused by the protesters. Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said police on the scene were overpowered by the sheer size of the rallies, and he insisted that the regime would repair all the damage caused in the attacks.
NATO, for its part, insisted the attacks had only hit legitimate military targets. This raises clear questions about the incident, which saw the slain Saif al-Arab’s personal residence reduced to rubble. NATO said they found “no evidence” that civilians were inside the residence.
Incredibly, this was not the first time Saif al-Arab was bombed by the West. In 1986 he was wounded in US strikes which killed his adopted baby sister. US officials cheered the latest attacks, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) saying the strike was a “good use of the mandate.” Saif al-Arab held no position in the government and lived mostly in Germany over the past decade.
By this logic, Obama's wife and children are now legitimate military targets.
Actually, Gadahafi was the target, so the logical extension of this means…
Really what a bad news for Gadhafy if he compromise with the protesters and with NATO forces this couldn't happened so past is past now Mr. Gadhafi surrender himself and his government leaders to their forces and give the power to the people of Libya this is only solution for this problem.
I really don't understand this logic, where an opponent is deemed inherently and permanently evil. That is certainly not a result of psychologic research, but simply a modern verision of WITCH HUNT that a dumb public can grasp and obviously do enjoy. The closest thing to research in that area is professional spin and distortions.
That the killing of Bin Laden is met with spontaneous demonstrations of patriotism and waiving the American flag proudly tells one of the alarming state of mind hidden in "patriotism". Certainly it is not just love, but also hate, simplistic perspectives, and acceptance of gross irresponsibility and unaccountability that is "harboured" by that noble attitude. What gives americans the right to military action in Pakistan, killing people. But of course, had he been arrested by Pakistan police, the US would have to prove his guilt, and given him at public trial after delivery. But since truth and justice is an enem,y of the US government, it is better to kill him.
The good old lynching obviously lives on beneath a very thin false posturing as educated, open, etc.
Some ridiculous recent spectacles: Obama says "justice" was done in reference to the purported assasination (and apparent rapid disposal) of OBL, and PressTV manages to dig up anti-government Libyans willing to act thrilled with the assasination of Ghadaffi's family.
S'pose Hate Week ever gets old for the believers?
No fly zone? Gadaffi's grand sons must have been seen by trigger happy, oil starved NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) flying their kites and bombs away.
Maybe the Libyan protesters mistook the embassies for warehouses stockpiling weapons for the rebels, sort of the way the FedGov mistook the Chinese embassy in Belgrade for a weapons warehouse. Come to think of it, those embassies were actually "command and control" facilities!