NATO promised to continue bombing Libya, and that the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, cannot “wait us out.” Spokeswoman Carmen Romero said Tuesday that airstrikes will continue until Gadhafi gives up.
NATO has conducted over 6,000 strike sorties since the start of the operation in March, many on civilian areas like the hospital that was struck on Monday, which resulted in the death of at least 7 civilians. But announcements from the Western powers have maintained that they have the intentions and the resources to perpetuate the bombing at their current levels until Gadhafi surrenders.
Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi on Tuesday, however, told a U.N. envoy that NATO bombing must stop before substantive talks can begin and that Gadhafi’s role as leader was non-negotiable. "This aggression (air strikes) needs to stop immediately, without that we cannot have a dialogue, we cannot solve any problems in Libya," Mahmoudi told a news conference afterwards. Thus far, Britain, France and the Libyan rebel forces have dropped their insistence that any settlement include Gadhafi’s full departure from Libya.
U.S.-NATO demands that Gadhafi leave power rest on two assertions. First, that Gadhafi is a threat to innocent civilians. Given NATO’s record of collateral damage in this mission, that assertion applies to the western powers as well, in principle. Second, that Gadhafi has “lost legitimacy.” But it isn’t clear what legitimacy the brutal rebel groups, now officially recognized as the legitimate governing authority, have over the people of Libya either, despite having been promised tens of billions of dollars in U.S. support.
The U.S. involvement in the war in Libya continues, despite never having been authorized by Congress as required by law, and will continue so long as NATO powers insist on publicly announcing policies of ceaseless bombing, while calls for a ceasefire are ignored.
You can tell how much NATO really cares about the Libyan people by their actions. This week they bombed the water source of 70% of the population. Millions could die, including women and children. What a shame Germany did not give this money to repair the damage NATO has done to the water supply. That would be a real humanitarian act, rather than lending to an illegitimate rebel gang of thugs who do not have the support of the Libyan people.
interesting, I did not hear water source of 70% – just any waterpipe.
This fits to NATOs targted bombing of civilian infrastructure – search for "SPANISH FIGHTER PILOTS ADMIT NATO CIVILIAN BOMBINGS
Do you remember the source of your information? please post it here.
thanks
hugo
I read a news about NATO saying that: “Libyan army using homes and other civilians places so these houses and other civilians places is a legitimate military target“. In another word NATO already have washed their hand off of civilians which they are about to target by intensifying their bombing campaigns killing more civilians.., not that they haven’t done it so far but they will kill more and that’s what they are saying for the world to know what NATO militarism is about.., a stupid neo fascism regimes using barbarians (Muslims brotherhoods and it affiliated terrorists groups) in achieving their goals attacking civilians and rest of Africa.., getting their orders from Hitlerism in Germany and Denmark.
NATO is a joke – the new terrorist organization.
NATO will hang those rebels out to dry in the end.
only way for NATO to get out of the self made fanancial mess is to pirate/loot the middle east oil reserves
Would Britain survive without the huge influx of Arab money which props up spending and housing in London?
In fact Britain is running a protection racket in the world through the help of american army-(because Britain is a third rate country with fourth rate army so it cannot do it on its own).
What Britain does is let the other countries be made instable (Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan etc) then let the british stooge be installed there-those people who have no following in own country and with strict instruction to those stooges that they will bring the money to britan,-that is how London has enriched itself in last 15 years after fall of soviet union. Billions of soviet money have flown illegally to London and the british court -kangaroo court if ever there was any -have not let the money go citing “it will harm england’s balance of payment”?
That is why british media gets incensed if the traitors like soviet spies are not left safe in Britain -because then the whole business of protection money racket and money that Britain gets is in jeopardy. That is what explains influx of foreign money to London and how London has overtaken new York in stock market. Forget about service industry -british are the most ill mannered race what service can they provide except protection racket on back of american arms? Britain is looting even usa. Through it is usa which has worked hard (through illegal invasions ) to make other countries unstable so that Britain can get money from protection of stooge elites of those countries..
the modus operandi of Britain is to make country and regions unstable and install british stooge with explicit instruction to bring the money -looted ones -to Britain from where it is not going to go anywhere else.
Some oligarch jews were the stooge of British in Russia and they brought so many ill gotten money to uk. So did the Kuwaitis-who brought 4 billions of pounds within a week of first Iraq war problem in august 1990 -so has continued the massive loot of the rest of the world by the English race through this money protection racket . it is money protection racket in the sense that those elite’s money is protected only when it is made to be lodged in British London banks.
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This is how the british and Americans now conduct their battle for "hearts and minds" – by making local satraps so widely and deeply despised that they are totally dependent on their Washington overlords for their sheer physical survival. The real "benchmark" the Iraqis have to display to the Americans' satisfaction is an infinite capacity for obedience.”
“In the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln's defeat of the London-backed slave-holders' Confederate insurrection, the London-linked New York faction of U.S. finance unleashed a predatory looting of the physical assets of the territory formerly ruled by the defeated Confederacy. That operation, which was described then as "carpet bagging," is a term that pointed to the style of the personal baggage, in which the travelling, locust-like predators carried their personal effects.”
Libyan Government offered democratic elections supervised by UN and AU -so why does NATO still bomb Libya?
NATO Bombing and rebel-attacks are not democratic and do not protect civilian lives.
Why antiwar does supress any kind of information that does not fit in the US propaganda picture?
Non of my original source links has been published here. I stopped submitting article sources meanwhile.
itis high time that rest of the world realise that nato is a criminal organsiation to serve the interst of england and its toddy usa and that natro troops msut be killed in mass by the armies of the world .itiis a world war already except the victimes are not realising it yet.
war it is the english race so called British who are instigating the perpetual war of course the English are too coward and weak to fight on their own so they have arranged a charade called NATO to do their dirty work.
Decisions in nato are made not in berlin or Belgium but only in London and some british agents’ place in washington. NATO WAS CREATED TO KEEP THE INFLUNCE OF WEAKNED BRITISH BASTARDS TO KEEP EUROPEANS DOWN (ESPECIALLY GEMRNS AND FRENCH) AND KEEP RUSSIAN THREATEND. IT WAS NOT CREATED TO counter Russia; it was created to give support by americans to the British agenda of keeping the world for the e benefit of English and anglosaxon race and that only.
as for hilary then you must understand that within one year of election of willy bill Clinton the British, who did not like Clinton had already infected Clinton clan and enslaved him to their agendas- in fact British were happy when Clinton lost democratic majority ih the house in 1994 election-they wanted not Clinton but pampered him anyway to use him for british agenda for perpetual war and Kosovo attack to justify nato existence- the same nato which was created and which serves for british interest only . It so happens that many jews have found the same aim recently as the British so it appears that it is neo con agenda -nothing could be further from he truth in fact British were adamant against Lebanon war in 1982 and were threatening Israel with atomic bomb in 1948 war.please recognise the real evil hat is British and we should neutralise that evil and dismantle their evil empire.
oh great they want to continue bombing Libya, civilian deaths and looting, raping rebels be damned!!! what a relief! and here I thought those people were going to get a reprieve!
Way to go bully NATO nations – ! feel good and upright and righteous about bombing one of, iif not the most, prosperous African nations – and for what again?
Ah humanitarianism right! Cause then anyone you kill can be justified!
How do you people sleep at night? F*cking monsters!
Yes – Go on killing civilians whilst mouthing platitudes that your intentions are to SAVE civilians.
Maybe NATO thinks that DEAD Libyans are SAVED Libyans.
Well done you murderers.
Ole, pilgrim!
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
Bankrupt US/NATO Afghan baby killers failing as they have failed in AF/PAK. They seem to have decided that the old colonial method of bombing these 3rd world countries into submission doesn't work inasmuch as their budget no longer allows for unlimited boming. (Sort of an 'economatic aggression, LOL!).
As these low life bast*rds look for an honorble way to withdraw from Libya, Afghanistan and possibly Iraq the world sees them for what they are – outright land, water and oil resource parasites (like their buddies in that 1/2 if Zionist hell we all know about).
Yassar, Qaddafi gains in prestiage as the 'slaughter of civiians' has never materialized and the 'slaughter of civilians' by the US/NATO killers escalate (as expected). Now in the area of 3,900 civilians, including Qaddafi's two grand children and his youngest son – way to go US/NATO!
See ya in hell!
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.