The NATO air war against Libya, which officials are still crowing about as a “flawless” sort of victory, is coming under renewed scrutiny this weekend after the New York Times investigation into claims of civilian casualties confirmed at least 40 deaths of civilians attributed to NATO air strikes.
The 40 figure is the bare minimum, of course, and all that the cursory examination was able to confirm. The paper reports that the figure could be “perhaps more than 70” when all is said and done.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen only last month praised the war, bragging that there were no “confirmed civilian casualties.” The reason there was no confirmation, it seems, is that NATO didn’t really look.
And indeed, civilian casualties are particularly damaging in this case, because the war was conducted under a UN Mandate to “protect civilians.” The fact that this “protection” included killing a large number of Libyan women and children by bombing their homes in the middle of the night. It will only add to the evidence that NATO dramatically overstepped the authorization of a no-fly zone by conducting a full scale air war.
only a few hundred, everythings cool, it don’t happen thare, everythings totally cool, a pretty favorable rate per POUND of exchange, really, thats how sykopaths justify & rationalise,, for the devil, thare sociopathically sadistic empirical transactions, being sloppy _ss murdering imperial war pigs & all, all for a “valid” contractual cause, well that & pre-emptive blowback & aftermath, contracted to save the fraudulent resource based extrapulations of the euro & the bankster cult of wall street too big to fall harder in vain of its very own peonic snivling self serving greed & sympathy for the devils’ crooked pities, the important thing being random, haphazard & accidently of collaterall value, not invain yet neither of any importance, relative to concern regaurds, nato, the war pigs & the vulture before the maggots just when a devil may care, well at least clearly fake the vacant hollow of soul absent, just a few hundred,oo,,, its a good deal for the post oblivion of an artificial reality in revolution by hi-jacked synthetic generation, sinister & diabolic, manslaughter by wars’ cowards, flying rat wings airborn cowards, vermin & swine, nato the larval host stewed organism
You mean civilians die in war? Who knew!
If a series of 6,000 Palestinian suicide bomber attacks were to kill a few hundred Israeli civilians this site would praise their obvious restraint and precision targeting.
NATO drops over 6,000 bombs and kills several hundred (few for such a campaign) and they’re baby killers.
there has been less than 200 suicide bombings in Israel since 1980
with half of them happening in one year.
how many people have been killed by nato/america/israel
through the whole of the 1990s america bombed iraq every other day.
A reasonable overestimation of Gaddafi murders during this period is 50,000.
A more reasonable number is 30,000.
The math would credit "NATO"…not really NATO but whoever with some nice stats.
With Gaddafi's Zionist roots and thousands of Israels mercenaries waiting release, no central bank, no Al Qaeda, in fact almost every word printed by some long proven to have been Zionist propaganda….
do we continue?
When the boys get into the cockpit of their toys, the outcome is obvious. From on high, you have absolute power over those on the ground.
Remember the WikiLeaks video of the helicopter crew slaughtering Iraqi civilians. They were having so much fun.
Enjoying killing other humans is in our DNA. Give a man a plane and a trigger and he's in heaven.
http://www.dangerouscreation.com
40? Thats probably ONE "incident" among tousands of the NATO "humanitarian" bloodbath. Their armed local al Qa'ida mercenaries and Blackwater equipped with the latest american perversities of weaponry have slaughtered whole cities.
But of course nobody "relevant" will say a peep about this thanks to the whores of the world media.
22 years ago tommorrow marks the aniversary of the invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause). You would think at this late date that by now they would come clean with the real numbers regarding that war. Nope, just the other day they were returning Noriega to Panama so they trotted out all the old propaganda. 13 US soldiers and 230 Panamanian Civilians killed.
Like this war they will never come out and admit the true toll of the war. The Panama war was my first war and I was still naive and expected that when I got back that I could go back over the press releases and find some truth. We had seen press there from day one. Not a chance no mention of the masacre in Chorillo or elsewere. No mention of Thousands of civilian dead. No mention of the Thousands of military and police and Ding Batts. The Ding Batts were the Dignitary Battalions. These were something in-between. They were civillians who Noriega had armed and they faught back too, let me tell you.
Panama continued.
I would be surprised if the complete death toll wasn't around 10 thousand. What was the total loss of American's killed or woulded? I have no Idea, just that it was multiples higher. They couldn't even be bothered telling the truth about how long it lasted. They acted as if it were over after the capture of Noriega. I wish! I was there at least 5 months later and we had a replacement battallion cover us while we went home for re-fit, we returned about three months later to the same stuff. Walking patrol, getting shot at, kicking in doors and dragging people out. Setting up road blocks and getting shot at. Don't get me wrong, many of the people were happy to see Noriega go, but I don't think any of them thought it was worth the price once they had found out the true cost.
So I wouldn't ever get your hopes up that our corporate sponsored "Free (MIC) Press" will ever come out and admit the true devestation of the Libyian war or any other. That is simply not how they roll.
Dumb story, maybe: I spent a month long Christmas vacation in Panama in ~'87-'88. We'd picked up a Harpers with an article on Noriega: ~He's called Carre de Pina, 'Pineapple Face,' a 3rd grade taunt. Purportedly there were shopkeepers who'd stab a pineapple and display it, still impaled (I never saw it). We're paranoid about Panama customs; surely they would not look kindly on that article. We thrilled at having 'smuggled' it and loaned it out to trusted friends like it was contraban. I sorted out that it was just this attitude and behavior that left me a li'l scared o' Manny. How jealous of his image he must be for grownups to act like that. Around the invasion, I saw a TV report that lives in infamy: 'Carre de Pina …which means –Face-' dramatic pause, dramatically 'of the Pineapple.' LOL! Pretty-boy must have been told to ham it up -a vague corroboration of something that grownups more familiar with Latin America would convey. The mask slipped. It was hard to take the evil-Noriega schtick seriously almost right away.
Presumably, some time next year we'll be reading the same kind of wisdom after the post-humanitarian event here regarding the soon-to-be "protected" Syrian people.
Hey we are the guys who got all his gold. Who cares how many we killed stealing the gold? We were there to protect them. It is not our fault they got in the way.
Actually this is just a disgrace. Since there was no reason for the attacks in the first place it should have been done at least in a safe as possible method. Yes that is strange to talk about safe and the murder of innocent people for money.
They hate us for our freedom.
Let me guess- now we'll be claiming that we had to kill all those civilians in order to prevent Gadhafi from massacring them. "He made us do it, I swear!" /points finger at dead Gadhafi