A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment was visible among the twisted wreckage of the building, the Associated Press reports, after being taken on a government tour of the site.
“In this whole area there is no military,” an ambulance driver told the AP.
Zlitan is in the Misrata District, and has been attacked by rebel forces from the district capital of Misrata several times over the past few months, though attempts to capture the town have, as elsewhere, failed.
Gadhafi’s minders also showed off several food warehouses they say were damaged in strikes, still on fire during the tour.
The dead included three doctors. NATO is refusing to release information on the strike before Tuesday.
Also Monday, British jets bombed the Central Organization for Electronic Research, an engineering academy that Major General Nick Pope said was cover for Libyan intelligence services and Gadhafi’s “nefarious activities.”
Though several civilian targets have been hit in NATO’s air war, they have usually denied it or claimed that the sites were military in nature. These claims will be difficult to make about a hospital.
But they died "humanely".
Ah, yes! You have to break a few innocent eggs to make an imperial omellete.
The FedGov, or its NATO stooges, will likely claim that there were "enemy combatants" in the hospital, and that made it a "legitimate" target. Funny how the laws of warfare never seem to apply when the FedGov and its auxiliaries are doing the shooting.
Or they will claim that the air strike was not one of NATO's – that Gadhafi’s air force struck the hospital in order to blame NATO…
I guess military hospitals are legit targets in USA, Britian, France, Canada, etc being as there is no doubt of their neutrality
All those countries were schooled in Terrorism 101 by Israel on how to deal with Arabs after 9/11.
After all, as the Mossad agents in the white van said, "The Palestinians are your problem now"
This is what always happens when you go to war. Ooops I mean when you try to help people with bombs.
…Help people with bombs…
That's pretty funny, but I doubt even the most die-hard cynic would correlate a having a bomb thrown at oneself with anything remotely approaching an approximation of the word "help". No, they want the oil. It's in the Wikileaks. Not a single western politician wants to face the inquisitive cameras when oil hits $150 bbl again.
How many Iraqi hospitals did the great liberators destroy in Iraq? What a disgusting batch of state terrorists run our foreign policy!
NATO strikes again. Perhaps all this murder and destruction is revenge for Lockerbie. There is no question that NATO is guilty of all four counts that Allied judges used at Nuremberg to send Hitler's minions to prison and the gallows. Calling the 21st century Robert Jackson to try the NATO high command in the Hague.
NATO bombed and damaged many many hosptitals in Serbia – all on behalf of the KLA an islamic terrorist organization to whom they have handed (temporarily one hopes) the Serbian province of Kosovo, all the better to drug run.
They destroyed the secular state of Iraq under Saddam and we now have fundamentalists holding sway.
They are now bombing the Libyans on behalf of the Libyan wing Of AlQaeda (Or what passes for the CIA funded islamic terrorists in Libya).
Pattern here that makes the so-called war on terror a farce.
Now that the criminals have been caught red-handed, they resort to more lying. The hospital was military in nature, they will say. But when the other side hits civilian places in the West, then the "civilized" start pulling their hair and gnashing their teeth and hypocritically call the other side names such as barbarian, savage, and worse.
The terrorists strike again! If they could aim only half as well for legitimate targets, they would win in about 3 days any of the wars for oil that the pick every other week.
Shame on patients and doctors murderers. All Geneva war conventions call it a crime. Why don't we hear about the Tribunals for the butchers?