For the first time since President Trump’s inauguration, the US has carried out airstrikes inside Libya, bombing what they described as an ISIS camp within central Libya, southeast of Sirte. 17 people were killed, and the US claimed all were ISIS.
African Command (AFRICOM) claimed that the drone strikes targeted a desert camp which “had been connected to multiple attacks across Europe.” Such a claim is common in US military attacks in nations the US is not engaged in a war.
That’s because legally speaking such strikes rest on them being special cases involving specific threats to allies. This language features in official reports on myriad US airstrikes across Africa in recent years.
The last US airstrikes in Libya took place the day before Trump’s inauguration, killing over 80 people around Sirte. The Pentagon gave almost an identical justification at the time that everyone killed was “external plotters” for ISIS, and tried to connect the killings to a recent attack in Germany.
WTF…, No comments…… What does that mean, portend….. announce??????
I guess we should all rejoice that “The Don” is now going after the NFL players.. & Kappernick, even getting Brady’s ire up….. Way better screaming at football players, than at up & cummin nuclear bomb possessing nutjobs…
I wanna raise 5 million $$$$$ to build a pyramid as a final resting place for the “Can’t We All Git Along” hero King of straight talk fame… RODNEY…..!!!!!!!!!!!!! He never had a chance to put it into our conscientiousness where it is needed so much……
What about this case where the cop sees a black dude driving in some sort of wrong place… The cop takes chase in the cruiser. As he & his partner were racing after the dude, the driver cop tells his partner… “When I catch this dude I’m gonna kill him!”. Sure enough when the dude crashes to a stop, the cop goes up to the car & shoots the dude 5 times… When back up arrived, they found a gun with the dead dude… So, self defense, right???? Not so fast…. The gun that was found had the cops DNA, but not the dudes…
Cut to the trial by Judge, turns out the judge not sure it was murder beyond reasonable doubt… Cop walks on murder one, murder II & murder III….
Do you think Black Lives Matter doesn’t need to raise hell and demonstrate with a bad mood and a few broken windows….??????
Just one more item: Coward Cops… There are way too many shoot first and ask questions later cops. Somehow the public at large doesn’t seem to have any problem with white cops shooting black people & their kids… and cumin up with ” I was in fear for my life,”. Even when these dead blacks & their kids as young as 8yrs old have no weapon or apparrent desire or oppotuunity to kill, hurt or harm these well armed cops. We either gotta weed out cops that get pissed off & off the person who did not sufficiently respect the cops sense of their own prestige… & those cops that are so scared they shoot people in the back 14 times because they are afraid these fleeing people MAY stop and harm unless they are completely dead… These coward cops, and their anger driven killer cops brethren are causing terrible pain to the families they rob of their loved ones and $100s of millions in damages in the places that least afford these judgments an DDD their citizens…. Time to end cop impunity!
The rulers in ANY society use the “divide and conquer” tactic of keeping people divided and distracted so that they can never unite to create a powerful critical mass to challenge the power elite! Pretty soon there will be no other alternative than to take up arms against the oppressors of the American dream. John Kennedy was said “When peaceful revolution is impossible violent revolution is inevitable.”
The War Machine needs to keep alternatives simmering, in case peace breaks out in one of its other wars.