Imagine! On Feb. 21 a bare four days after the overseas called for "Day of Rage' protest, U.S. tabloids, a UK counterpart, the Telegraph, and the International Federation for Human Rights, reported Libya's second city along with Sirte, Tobruk, Misrata, Khoms, Tarhounah, Zenten, Al-Zawiya and Zouara had all been taken by protesters - "protesters?" Benghazi airport was taken over a few days earlier on the 19th. For the next nine weeks the world would see on TV, tough hombre looking "freedom fighters' in their fleets of heavy weaponry mounted pickup trucks looking nothing at all like protesters, CNN claiming them to have be civilians from various walks of life up to a few days before, who had joined the 'rebellion'.
CIA compliant Human Rights Watch would quote 'rebel witnesses' and give an 'apparent' figure of thousands of civilians killed by government forces, only to reduce that number a few years later. But throughout 2011, HRW's still published amazingly brazen baldfaced lies, with no attempt at documentation. In HRW's film, 'The Death of a Dictator,' which would have been better titled 'HRW Role in the Murder of Libya,' "protests against the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi broke out in Libya in February 2011, the government's security forces responded by opening fire on the protesters." Amnesty International was involved similarly, denouncing the murdering of civilians, after justified international condemnation by preaching entirely false reports. By contrast, top German news agency Reuters, in its 'Nine Month Time Line' coverage of the fighting in Libya in 2011, contains not one single mention of any Libyan government malfeasance, and its reporters had slipped into Benghazi even before NATO bombing began and found it a locked down patrolled city with a cowed citizenry. Neither CNN, nor its media partner in crime, Qatar's Al Jazeera, ever televised during the months it took to destroy Libya, one single corroborating video or photo of a substantial amount of protestors demonstrating, peaceful or otherwise, let alone of a demonstration of civilians being fired upon.
Almost at the same time as first reports of violence, as if on cue, had come charges carried in Western media from Libyan exiles in various countries accussing Gaddafi of hiring mercenaries. After investigation, it proved to be to the contrary. The plotters had had little difficulty in recruiting from the significant population of veteran terrorists in Eastern Libya and nearby Arab nations, who had fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. [see documentation further down in this article].
Resolution 1970, proposed by US, UK, France and Germany, was passed, imposing sanctions on Gaddafi and his family. The resolution referred to Libya's defending the nation from armed attack in slanderous wording calling for action by International Criminal Court (ICC). Amazingly, this rush to both condemn and punish the leadership of a permanent member of the United Nations was based solely on CNN and Aljazeera reports without UN verification, with some members of the council referring to the defection of the Libyan Ambassador and his deputy who quickly testified against their government in resigning.
At the ten day mark, February 28 - EU governments approved a package of sanctions against Gaddafi and his closest advisers including an arms embargo and bans on travel to the bloc.
March 5- only 18 days after the first disturbance - The National Council met in Benghazi and declares itself the sole representative for LibyaMarch 10 - a few days later, France recognized the Libyan National Council as the "legitimate representative of Libya's people." Libya suspended diplomatic relations with France the next day.
March 16- at the one month mark- Forces loyal to Gaddafi are near rebel-held Benghazi, and Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam tells France-based TV channel Euronews: "Everything will be over in 48 hours."
- and the following day March 17, exactly one month after first violence - The U.N. Security Council votes to authorize a no-fly zone over Libya and "all necessary measures" - (code for military action) -- to protect civilians against Gaddafi's army.
March 19 - The first air strikes halt the advance of Gaddafi's forces on Benghazi and target Libya's air defense infrastructure.
Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, denied wrongdoing by government forces." He said that the largest demonstration the opposition had made was of a few thousand people in Bengazi, and that the opposition was made up of terrorists who publicly executed soldiers of the Libyan army on "dozens of videos" on the Internet. He said that "Libya does not use mercenaries, period", and that "half of Libya's population are blacks." "We are not killing our fellow citizens. We are not dropping bombs on them. We and our loyal army have shown unprecedented tolerance towards our own people, who are already armed with tanks and heavy artillery. But even despite that we do not touch innocent civilians. Armed bandits, who are sitting in the tanks are eager to divide the country into two parts."
[ "World To See 'Surprises' In Libya Soon, Says Gaddafi's Son". Bernama, 5 March 2011.]
It had taken the colonial powers only one month from the first day of violence in Benghazi to have its UN tool Security Council order the bombing of prosperous Libya out of existence and already weeks before the US had many billions of dollars worth of Libyan overseas assets sized and sanctions put into effect, all based on CNN unsubstantiated charges.
The colonial power monolithic media of the West made this swift war upon Libya possible. These media outlets that made the quick destruction of Libya possible had also make acceptable and appropriate the obliteration a three million Koreans, and almost every town in the Korean peninsula, the deaths of many more millions in Vietnam, where the US dropped more than twice the tonnage of bombs dropped in all of WWII and the US invasion of Iraq and the extermination of a million and half of its citizens.
It would be a great stretch of imagination to think that Russian President Medvedev could have been fooled. Basic contradictions in what was being reported by CNN, promoted even more simple mindedly by the rest of Western media and in and obviously desperate speech by a US president attempting to justify US bombing in a UN member nation and former colony of England, France and Italy (who were to bomb it as well). Besides information from state agencies, Medvedev would have been aware that even Pravda.RU had been covering events with critical commentary.
On March 22, 2011, President Mevedev spoke to reporters in his home in suburban Gorki, explaining why he ordered Russia's UN Ambassador not use Russia's veto power to the block the Security Council's 'No Fly Zone,' (which gave the colonial powers carte blanche to destroy Libya under the now familiar charge that a government was "killing its own people" with with only CNN and Qatar's Al Jazeera uncorroborated reports as the basis for action). British Tornadoes were engaged in ground attacks and Tomahawk missiles were being fired from British submarines as Libyan government armed forces and militias heading into Misurata after having liberated Ajdabiya, Zawiyah, Ras Lanuf and parts of Brega from the US NATO UN supported terrorist army. (Most certainly were not just enforcing the UN's requested 'No Fly Zone,' on Lybia's small air force).
Russian Television reported:.
Russia did not veto in UN in order to protect Libyan civilians - Medvedev RT, March 22, 201
I do not think this resolution is wrong," Medvedev told reporters in his suburban residence in Gorki on Monday. "The Foreign Ministry fulfilled my instructions."
"All that is going on in Libya is connected with outrageous behavior of Libya's authorities and the crimes that were completely against their own people. We must not forget about it. Everything else is simply a consequence."
Medvedev's publicly announced assessment of the situation in Libya fully agreed with that of Western conglomerate media and President Obama, though Obama in explaining his decision to bomb Libya Obama included, pure fabrications among other desperate rationale, the statement to Western reporters of a women who claimed she gang raped by Libyan soldiers as proof of monstrous Libyan soldiers. Remember we are taking about a socialist government (constantly referred to in Western media as the 'Gadaffi regime') the UN Quality of Life Index ranked not only far and away the highest in Africa, but also higher than nine European nations including Russia. Remember we are talking about a Gadaffi, who was Chairman of the African Union, characterized as civilization's number one enemy in monopolized media and by government officials owned by a financial element in the centers of power in the neocolonializing nations of the West, for centuries referred to awesomely as 'The Colonial Powers' .
And what was the reaction back home in Medvedev's former Soviet Socialist Russia?
It must have be embarrassing for Russians to hear Medvedev parroting an obvious colonial powers lie to justify Russia's allowing the US, UK, French and Canadian air and sea pulverizing attack on the government and militia forces of a tiny but wealthy and singularly independent Africa country. Russia had approved an impossible to describe in sufficient opprobrium neocolonial crime against humanity in a little but wealthy and obstreperously independent nation (one of a very few left in the world) by the combined military, economic and political power of the empires of the USA, Britain and France plus that of the rest of NATO nations and that of Arab and other nations whose governments were allied with an Anglo-American world dictatorship, hardly friendly toward Russia to put it mildly. Medvedev had made Russia an accomplice before and after the fact to the above described crime, prosecutable one day under the Nuremberg Principles of International Law awaiting future implementation by a future reconstituted United Nations no longer under the control of nations whose majority of citizens are of European descent. Add to this a mortifying recollection that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had for a half century been the protector African movements for independence from Western colonialism once Soviet Russia had recovered from a similar invasion attack by fourteen armies of twelve capitalist countries led by those of the USA and Great Britain fostering, supporting and participating in a horrifically deadly civil war in Russia.
The Reader is invited to compare the more logical sounding explanations of events in Libya beginning mid February, 2011 by Seif Gaddafi during a Russian Television interview without the now proven lies regarding Gaddafi repeated by Russia's then president Medvedev, who helped US-NATO-UN destroy prosperous Socialist Libya. Seif Gaddafi had made a direct appeal to Russia at the end of the below quoted Russian Television interview saying, (diplomatically, given Medvedev's solidarity with Libya's destroyers) "It was time for Russia to step in to play a positive role in the escalating conflict and show that it is a superpower."
Here is Seif Gaddafi, speaking during a Russian Television interview, which RT titled US looks on Libya as McDonald's -- Gaddafi's son
"Many countries, Iran and North Korea are among them, told us it was our mistake to give up, to have stopped developing long-range missiles and to become friendly with the West. Our example means one should never trust the West and should always be on alert -- for them it is fine to change their mind overnight and start bombing Libya,"
"One of our biggest mistakes was that we delayed buying new weapons, especially from Russia, and delayed building a strong army. We thought Europeans were our friends; our mistake was to be tolerant with our enemies". Saif Gaddafi confessed naivete about the intentions of the European investor colonizers of the world his father had fought tooth and nail in Africa and beyond for four decades,
Regarding his being charged by the International Criminal Court,"They do not accuse me of policy, they accuse me of killing people, and everybody knows it. For me to be responsible for killing people was a joke. This would have happened anywhere in the world if people in the street moved towards a military site trying to steal ammunition or arms. Of course the military would prevent them!" stated Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
The son of the Libyan leader denied either he or his father had ordered the killing of protesters.
"No, nobody ordered to kill them, the guards just fired, that's it. And they do not need permission to do that."
"It's a fake court. Under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal. They say if you accept this deal, we will take care of the court. What does that mean? It means this court is controlled by those countries which are attacking us every day!
"The country is a like a piece of cake for them -- it is rich, it has gas, oil and money, so they must kill my father to get the cake. What they don't understand is that the fighting will not stop if my father goes. Libyans will continue fighting until one day the country will be back to the Libyans,"concluded Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
"We told them 'You want elections? OK -- let's do elections. We will bring observers from Russia, from America, from the African Union, from the European Union, from the United Nations to supervise the elections. And if we win -- you should accept the results, if we lose -- congratulations.' They answered 'no.'," Saif al-Islam Gaddafi went on. "Our goal is to march to Tripoli. We have to march to Tripoli and occupy Tripoli. By force. So, you want to fight? OK, we will fight. And you will lose. And soon, because you have no chance. You have 40 ships in front of our coast, you have hundreds of airplanes, you have 17 satellites from America and France, you have everything, but you are losing every day. Why? Because the people are not with you."
"The Libyans are united not just around my father as a leader but they are united around other moral values. They are fighting for their country, for their people. They know that NATO is here and is bombing not because they want to help us, or because it is so nice to us or because it is so generous towards the Libyan people, but because they have their own interest. And the rebels are with NATO not because they are pro-democracy or fighting for freedom. It has nothing to do with this. They have their own interests. They want to share the cake -- they want to share this country,"
The son of the Libyan leader acknowledged that the West won the media war at the outset because it planned to say early on that Gaddafi was in Venezuela and that the rebels were already occupying Tripoli and the regime was gone.
"They seeded big chaos in the whole country. We are still now suffering from that chaos. But now the Libyans are winning. The Security Council issued its resolution against Libya because of fake media reports saying that the Libyan air force is bombing civilian districts in Tripoli and killing -- but go there and show me any evidence of such killings. We told everyone -- please, send a fact-finding mission to Libya to find out what's happened. They said no. We are going to bomb you. Nobody will give up and raise a white flag."
Pravda.ru covered a protests of hundreds in Moscow along with a another video on one before the White House in Washington.
'Libya protest: GADDAFI is a HERO! Russia 3/17/2011' ..Libya protest: GADDAFI is a HERO! Russia 17.03.2011 ..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqCZXlH-HM
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