Tony Blair with Col Muammar Gaddafi during a visit to Libya in 2007

Another Rothschild puppets looking to secure Libyan oil fields. Stay the hell away, limey, & you too Hilarious Clinton/Paul Wolfowitz. This is the People of Libya's opportunity.

We'll use military force to free Libya, vows PM: Cameron plans no-fly zone over country and even threatens to send British troops

By Tim Shipman
Last updated at 12:00 AM on 1st March 2011

 

David Cameron threatened Colonel Gaddafi with military action last night, promising a no-fly zone and arms shipments to his enemies.

The Prime Minister even suggested he could send British troops into Libya as a peacekeeping force to stop Gaddafi’s henchmen massacring democracy campaigners.

At a National Security Council meeting yesterday morning, he ordered military chiefs to draw up plans for the no-fly zone. If Gaddafi turned his air force on the rebels, RAF warplanes would be able to intervene. 

Mr Cameron’s dramatic move, which may come to define his premiership, came on the day that:

Papers revealed UK forces have trained Libyan troops in Britain;

• Gaddafi’s son Saif repeated his pledge that the regime would ‘fight to the last bullet’;
• The Pentagon started moving warships in preparation to police a no-fly zone;
• World leaders imposed a raft of diplomatic and financial sanctions;
• Tony Blair was condemned for ‘dodgy dealing’ that led to the now infamous ‘deal in the desert’ with Gaddafi in 2004.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12603320

Libya unrest: US repositioning forces in region

The US defence department says it is repositioning forces in the Libya region as the West weighs potential intervention against Muammar Gaddafi.

The Pentagon said it was moving forces to "provide for that flexibility once decisions are made".

The US already has a significant presence close to Libya, with several bases in southern Italy.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said US forces could be used for delivering humanitarian assistance.

Meanwhile, the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, told reporters in Washington the US was "actively and seriously" considering establishing a no-fly zone and was in talks with Nato and other potential military partners.

'Contingency plans'

Repositioned US forces could be used to enforce a no-fly zone to prevent Col Gaddafi's aircraft attacking opposition supporters, BBC correspondents say.

"We have planners working various contingency plans, and I think it's safe to say as part of that we're repositioning forces to provide for that flexibility once decisions are made," Pentagon spokesman Col Dave Lapan said.

Col Gaddafi is trying to shore up support in and around the Libyan capital

The BBC's Andrew North, in Washington, says the Pentagon's announcement seems partly designed to send a message to Col Gaddafi.

It is still not clear if there will be sufficient support at the United Nations Security Council for a no-fly zone, our correspondent says.

US commanders could turn to the USS Enterprise, currently in the Red Sea, as well as the amphibious ship the USS Kearsarge, which has a fleet of helicopters and about 2,000 Marines aboard, AFP news agency reported.

In addition, the US maintains a large naval air station in Sigonella, Sicily, less than an hour's flight from Libya.

Mrs Clinton said on Monday that the US was leaving all its options on the table in dealing with Libya.

Although she did not discuss military options, Mrs Clinton said that as long as Col Gaddafi remained in power the US would consider a range of options against Libya's rulers.

"Through their actions, they have lost the legitimacy to govern. And the people of Libya have made themselves clear: it is time for Gaddafi to go - now, without further violence or delay," she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that Western nations were looking at setting up a humanitarian "corridor" in neighbouring Tunisia or Egypt to help refugees.

All about the OIL . . .

Defiant Gadhafi Hangs Tough in Tripoli

Posted on Feb 27, 2011

Flickr / idin

With his grip on the country steadily slipping, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi clings to what may be his last bastion of support, in the capital of Tripoli. —JCL

Al-Jazeera English:

As more cities fall into the hands of the pro-democracy protesters, Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is hanging on to the capital where security forces loyal to him seem to have a firm hold, even amid reports of sporadic gunfire.

On Sunday, protesters had reportedly taken over the towns of Misurata and Zawiyah, further shrinking the control of Gaddafi’s government.

However, tanks were surrounding Zawiyah, 50km from Tripoli, and locals feared an imminent raid by pro-Gaddafi forces.

That's what I'm talking about. Power to the People. Power to those who don't poo their pants at the sight of their own shadow. You know what I'm talking about.

Anti-Gadhafi forces gear for fight in city nearest Tripoli

Zawiya, a key city close to an oil port and refineries, is the nearest population center to Tripoli to fall into the opposition hands.

ZAWIYA - Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by rebel troops who control the city closest to the capital Tripoli prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi surrounding Zawiya.

An Associated Press reporter who reached Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, confirmed the anti-government rebels are in control of the center of the city of 200,000. They have army tanks and anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks deployed. But on the outskirts, they are surrounded by pro-Gadhafi forces, also backed by tanks and anti-aircraft guns.

	Libyans demonstrate against Muammar Gadhafi’s regime in the eastern city of Tobruk, Feb. 26, 2011.
	Photo by: AP

There were at least six checkpoints controlled by troops loyal to Gadhafi on the road from Tripoli to Zawiya. Each checkpoint was reinforced by at least one tank, and the troops concealed their faces with scarves.

Gadhafi has launched by far the bloodiest crackdown in a wave of anti-regime uprising sweeping the Arab world. The United States, Britain and the United Nations Security Council all imposed sanctions on Libya over the weekend. And President Barack Obama said it is time for Gadhafi to go.

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American false flags & fake Al Qaeda to facilitate Zionist demands for war. But no-one really wants to know these uncomfortable truths. My country right or wrong though thus far since the dawning of the new millennium they've been consistently horribly wrong.

Qaddafi, Bush and the Iraq Big Lie

Friday 25 February 2011

Muammar el-Qaddafi. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt / Wikimedia)

While the US government expresses outrage over the brutality of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi toward his own people, we’re missing a complex but significant wrinkle that ties Qaddafi to America’s cover-up of the true path to war in Iraq.

In May, 2009, a man named Ibn Shaikh al-Libi supposedly committed suicide while being held in a Libyan jail. Al-Libi is a deeply, deeply interesting fellow. Back in 2002, he was tortured by Egypt under US direction. It appears that the reason the US government had him tortured was not to stop some imminent attack on the United States, but to generate alleged—and false— links between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that could justify invading Iraq.

Al-Libi was captured and sent to Egypt, where under severe torture including waterboarding, he related what turned out to be false information about purported Saddam-9/11 links. Al-Libi later explained that he provided that material because that’s what his captors wanted to hear, and it ended his torture.

Nick Baumann wrote about it in 2009 in Mother Jones:

Al-Libi was the man whose false confession, obtained under torture, of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda provided the Bush administration with its casus belli for war with Iraq. It didn’t seem to matter that al-Libi’s claim that Bin Laden had sent operatives to be trained in the use of weapons of mass destruction by Hussein’s people didn’t make any sense. “They were killing me,” al-Libi later told the FBI about his torturers. “I had to tell them something.” A bipartisan Senate Intelligence committee report would later conclude that al-Libi lied about the link “to avoid torture.”

More on this at The Washington Note, where former Colin Powell aide Lawrence Wilkerson weighed in.

Given the enormity of what al-Libi’s revelations represent, then his continued presence and ability to witness the true background to the Iraq invasion made him a grave threat to the Bush-Cheney administration and the potential vulnerability of its leading lights to war crimes prosecution.

Thus, the fact that he suddenly “killed himself” while being held by Qaddafi’s police state at least raises the question of whether Qaddafi was doing a favor for the US. Of course, by 2009, when al-Libi suddenly died, Obama had become president—but it’s safe to say that deep, covert cleanup operations don’t end with an inauguration.

With the world delighting in the abdication of the dictator Mubarak in Egypt and now the Libyan Qaddafi’s potential demise, the least we can do is examine the threads back to our own country. If we do not pay attention to these things, we are all culpable.

It seems these crazy middle-east dictators never know when to call it a day.

Son of a bitch is going down. We have a lot to learn from our Arab Brothers & Sisters. They're teaching us the power of Popular Front . . . but no-one is listening.

Gadhafi arms civilian supporters as protesters capture parts of Tripoli

Gadhafi's son says 'signs of civil war and foreign interference have started'; Libyan leader's closest European ally says Gadhafi has lost control while other world leaders take steps to isolate his regime.

After 41 years of rule, the regime of Muammar Gadhafi looked increasingly tenuous in the face of nationwide revolt on Saturday. The Gadhafi government has begun arming civilian supporters to set up checkpoints and roving patrols around the Libyan capital to control movement and quash dissent, residents said Saturday.

Gadhafi, speaking from the ramparts of a historic Tripoli fort on Friday, told supporters to prepare to defend the nation as he faced the biggest challenge to his 42-year rule. "At the suitable time, we will open the arms depot so all Libyans and tribes become armed, so that Libya becomes red with fire," he said.

	Protesters against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi chant slogans during a demonstration in Benghazi February 26, 2011.
	Photo by: Reuters

Rebels hold a long sweep of about half of Libya's 1,600-kilometer Mediterranean coastline where most of the population lives, and even captured a brigadier general and a soldier Saturday as the Libyan army tried to retake an air base east of Tripoli.

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 Lazy8 wrote: 
I expect it could be about the same amount of time it took them to notice the genocide that was occurring a while back in Rwanda. :rolls eyes:

Of course, if Gaddaffi suddenly starts blowing up all the oil fields, they would send in help within 1 hour.

 (In fact...I bet the redistribution plan has already been worked out)

 oldslabsides wrote: 
through the head!

 Manbird wrote: 

a stoat?

 jadewahoo wrote: 
OK. I'll go look. Thanks. 

 Manbird wrote: 
The answer, my friend, is swinging in the wind...

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Where would we be without those strongly worded UN resolutions! (and the after party, of course)

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 hippiechick wrote:

I expect debate on a strongly-worded resolution to begin as soon as the cocktail reception is finished. Expect China to veto it about the time Gaddafis are swinging from lampposts.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Don't know Mr. Moons' position on this one and he can't be reached,,he's on a yacht some where !

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
Isn't this the kind of thing that the UN is supposed to handle?

I'm surprised that Mr Moon has heard of Libya !

Reports of torture, killing in Libya, says U.N. secretary general