[D66] NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte
Antid Oto
protocosmos66 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 08:42:15 CEST 2011
Die Bakker is altijd zo redelijk, net als zijn partij: staak het verzet tegen de
"rebellen" en NATO anders jagen we jullie de onnodig de dood in. En dat leidde
de Srebrenica-commissie!
On 3-10-2011 8:29, Bert Bakker wrote:
> Gruwelijk, uiteraard.
> Maar even gruwelijk dat die Ghadaffi aan zijn laatste strohalm hangt, en toch
> nog terugvecht. Je kunt dus ook zeggen dat zijn zinloos verzet op dit moment
> volstrekt onnodig duizenden mensen de dood injaagt. Het is maar aan welke kant
> je kijkt...
>
>
>
> 2011/10/2 Antid Oto <protocosmos66 at gmail.com <mailto:protocosmos66 at gmail.com>>
>
> Kijk Bakker: hier een merkwaardige observatie van het rode kruis:
>
> http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/5444/De-opstand-in-Libie/article/detail/2941361/2011/10/02/Situatie-in-belegerd-Sirte-afschuwelijk.dhtml
>
> On 2-9-2011 9:05, Antid Oto wrote:
> > NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte
> > 1 September 2011
> >
> > Nearly six months after securing a United Nations Security Council resolution
> > authorizing a no-fly zone in Libya and the use of “all necessary measures… to
> > protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack,” the US
> > and its NATO allies, former colonial powers, are mounting a barbaric siege
> of a
> > major population center that threatens to produce civilian casualties on a
> mass
> > scale.
> >
> > In their breathless promotion of the “final battle” to realize the real
> US-NATO
> > aim in Libya—regime-change—few in the Western media have bothered to consider
> > the fact that the major imperialist powers are carrying out precisely the kind
> > of act they claimed their war was designed to prevent.
> >
> > Gaddafi’s troops were marching on Benghazi, the world was told, and only a
> > “humanitarian” intervention by NATO could save the city’s innocent population.
> > Now the “rebels” are encircling Sirte, led by British and Qatari special
> forces
> > troops, intelligence operatives and mercenary military contractors, while the
> > city’s population is being pounded by NATO bombs and cut off from food,
> fuel and
> > all basic supplies.
> >
> > The sheer contempt shown by the US and the Western European powers for
> legality
> > and world public opinion is breathtaking. The pretense that NATO is acting
> under
> > the terms of the UN resolution that provided a fig leaf for its
> intervention is
> > more than absurd; it has become obscene.
> >
> > One has to go back to the crimes of the fascist powers in the 1930s and
> 1940s to
> > search for parallels to such a siege: the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish
> > Civil War, the siege of Leningrad and the Warsaw Ghetto.
> >
> > NATO warplanes have over the past few days conducted scores of air strikes
> > against Sirte, the town of Bani Walid to its west and the roads linking
> the two.
> > While there have been no independent reports from Sirte, the spokesman for the
> > Gaddafi regime, Moussa Ibrahim, reported that the continuous bomb and missile
> > attacks have killed 1,000 people in the city and left many more wounded.
> >
> > Part of this ferocious air assault is aimed at assassinating Colonel Muammar
> > Gaddafi, who is believed by some to have taken refuge in the city or its
> > surrounding area. Western special forces are reportedly on the ground hunting
> > for Gaddafi, while an array of US spy planes have been deployed to
> pinpoint his
> > whereabouts.
> >
> > The NATO-led rebels have taken up positions on the main coastal highway both
> > east and west of Sirte, with orders to stay in place until the NATO blitzkrieg
> > has sufficiently annihilated the city’s defenders.
> >
> > The National Transitional Council (NTC), the self-appointed body of ex-Gaddafi
> > ministers, Western intelligence assets, Islamists and tribal functionaries
> that
> > has been recognized by the major powers as the legitimate government of Libya,
> > has announced a surrender-or-die ultimatum to the city. If a surrender is not
> > forthcoming by Saturday, they say, the city will be subjected to military
> assault.
> >
> > “We have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender,” an NTC military
> > spokesman, Col. Ahmed Omar Bani, told a press conference in Benghazi. “We
> > continue to seek a peaceful solution, but on Saturday we will use different
> > methods against these criminals.”
> >
> > “Sometimes to avoid bloodshed you must shed blood, and the faster we do
> this the
> > less blood we will shed,” said Ali Tarhouni, the deputy head of the NTC.
> >
> > The Western media is justifying a bloodbath in advance, reporting that the
> > “rebels” have “unfinished business” or “scores to settle” with Sirte’s
> > defenders, which are said to include army units involved in the attacks on
> > Misrata and Benghazi. The city is also Gaddafi’s hometown and a center of his
> > tribe, the Gaddafifahs.
> >
> > The criminal methods employed by NATO and its “rebel” proxies—the bombing of
> > cities, attempted assassinations, massacres and the lynching of black
> > sub-Saharan African immigrant workers—are in sync with the aim of the war:
> > imperialist conquest.
> >
> > Having supported the Western-backed dictatorships of Zine El Abidine Ben
> Ali in
> > Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt against popular revolts until the
> bitter end,
> > the US and its NATO allies decided to intervene in Libya, which lies
> > strategically between these two countries. They set about hijacking the
> > anti-Gaddafi demonstrations that broke out last February and fomenting a civil
> > war as a vehicle for direct NATO intervention. To this end, British and French
> > special forces units were deployed on the ground in Libya well before any UN
> > resolution was ever discussed.
> >
> > This intervention was never about protecting the civilian population.
> Tellingly,
> > a spokesman for the NTC Wednesday estimated that the total number of Libyans
> > killed in the last six months—both civilians and combatants—has risen to over
> > 50,000. If one were to accept as good coin the pretense that NATO waged
> its war
> > for the purpose of saving human lives, it would have to be judged a colossal
> > failure. This war has produced far more carnage than any repression that
> > preceded it.
> >
> > The goal of the NATO war is to install a puppet regime in Tripoli that
> will be a
> > more pliant tool of the Western governments and energy conglomerates. Ruling
> > circles in Washington, London, Paris and Rome are salivating over the prospect
> > of turning the clock back 42 years to the days when the corrupt monarchy
> of King
> > Idris let Standard Oil write Libya’s petroleum laws and provided military
> bases
> > to both the US and Britain.
> >
> > Consolidating such neocolonial aims will no doubt entail an even greater
> amount
> > of bloodshed in suppressing popular opposition within Libya.
> >
> > The crimes being carried out against the people of Libya and the threat of
> a far
> > wider conflagration that is inherent in the inter-imperialist tensions
> over who
> > will control the country’s oil wealth pose the urgent necessity of a new
> antiwar
> > movement, based on the working class and a socialist perspective.
> >
> > The struggle against war must be joined with the fight against the assault on
> > jobs, living standards and basic social and democratic rights taking place in
> > virtually every country. It must be consciously directed against the source of
> > both militarism and the unfolding social counterrevolution—the capitalist
> profit
> > system.
> >
> > Bill Van Auken
> >
> > http://wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/pers-s01.shtml
> >
>
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