Libya : A no lie zone

[Ed Jewett]

June 20, 2011 -- The blackmail used to inch Germany into the Libya campaign

For decades, the CIA has been in possession of documents proving that Libya's chemical weapons program benefitted from the assistance of West German firms. Germany abstained on UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized "any means" necessary to prevent the death of civilians in Libya's civil war, which the U.S. and NATO quickly adopted as a green light for regime change in Libya through the assassination of its leader Muammar Qaddafi.

To counter German resistance to UN and NATO action against Libya, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was told by President Obama that she and her country would be embarrassed if some of the details of Germany's involvement in Libya's nerve and mustard gas weapons program were "leaked" to the media. WMR learned in Libya that the blackmail of Germany by the U.S. and NATO worked and that Germany decided to step up its role in the Libyan war effort, although not to the extent desired by Washington, London, or Paris. In fact, the Germans want nothing reported about the continued presence in Libya of chemical weapons stocks turned over by Libya to the UN and U.S. but still await disposal. Libyan troops were placed in charge of the security for the chemical weapons stocks after Libya's 2003 agreement with the U.S. and UN to turn over its stockpiles. However, since NATO began bombing Libyan military bases, some of which are adjacent to the chemical weapons warehouses, there is a fear that the weapons could fall into the hands of Libyan rebels, some of whom are "Al Qaeda" and "mujaheddin" veterans of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Germany fears that its role in providing the chemical weapons technology to Libya might be revealed if the rebels gain control of the warehouses.

Libyan chemical weapons production was centered at the "Pharma 150" plant at Rabta, construction of which began in 1984. One of the primary firms involved in Rabta's construction was Imhausen-Chemie of Lahr/Schwarzwald, Germany. Assisting Inhausen were some thirty other West German firms, in addition to Belgian, Singapore, South African, and French companies, the Schweizerischen Kreditanstalt Bank of Zurich, and Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Switzerland subsidiaries of Imhausen. Assisting Imhaussen at Rabta was Japanese Steel Works and Marubeni of Japan, both of which masked chemical weapons production equipment sent to Rabta as desalinization plant materials. Some 200 construction workers from Thailand were also involved in the building of the Rabta complex.

Among the other West German firms supplying Libya's chemical weapons plant at Rabta were Abacus, Alfred Teves GmbH, Bischoff, Deutsche Bank, Drebs und Kiefer, Merck, Gesellschaft fur Automation, Heberger Bau, Hunnebeck, J. Sartorius, Kone, Krebs and Kefier, Linde, Pawling and Harnishchfeger, Preussag, Raab Karcher, Rhenus, Rose GmbH, Salzgitter Indistriebau GmbH, Siemens, Thyssen, Webac, and Zink.

Imhausen partnered with a Frankfurt-based firm, IIhsan Barbouti International (IBI), headed by Ihsan Barbouti, a native of Iraq and resident of London who was supplying chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.

A Danish firm, DISA, supplied the foundry for Rabta's chemical bomb making capability, which may explain why Denmark's fanatically pro-business government has joined the NATO bombing campaign in Libya. The destruction of evidence pointing to how NATO and other European nations helped Libya develop chemical weapons may explain the involvement of a raft of NATO countries in the Libya military campaign and the reticence of European nations to discuss the present security problems with NATO's bombing of Libyan military bases that have the added responsibility of providing security for the adjacent warehouses containing chemical weapons and pre-cursor materials.

Belgium's Flaekt Company provided Rabta a cooling tower, while De Dietrich, a French company, provided glass lined cauldrons. Ironbridge, J.G. Trading, and Tosalex Trading of the United Kingdom were involved in shipping and contracting for Rabta.

Phillips Petroleum of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, supplied thiodiglycol, a mustard gas precursor chemical. Energoinvest of Yugoslavia supplied Rabta's power station, East Germany's VEB provided Rabta's steel production capabilities, and Lampart of Hungary and Peterlee of Italy also supplied materials to Rabta.

There are Western intelligence elements in Tripoli that wish to see the roles of NATO nations at Rabta consigned to the ash heap of history. They made their intentions and interests quite clear during a conference in Tripoli at which the security dangers of Libyan rebels, many of whom are radical Islamist Salafists. These NATO-backed rebels now pose a threat to the warehoused chemicals being protected by central Libyan government military forces under the 2003 agreement with the United States and UN.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110619

[Jan Klimkowski]

NATO continues to claim that its bombing raids are targeting radar and anti-aircraft facilities, command and control bunkers etc. It's a bit late in the day still to be discovering new facilities of this kind.

Given the confirmed presence of western former special forces mercenaries, hired through PMCs, in the sands and streets of Libya, it is entirely plausible that many of these bombing raids are in fact targeting evidence of western hypocrisy and war crimes in the form of CBW munitions and other armaments sold to Libya by western multinationals.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Oh, lookee, "Our Boyz", the heroic Libyan resistance, don't believe in press freedom. :lol::rofl:

Libyan rebels in Misrata clamp down on foreign media

Press face curbs on frontline reporting, internet links and translators, as insurgents go on alert for Muammar Gaddafi's spies

Chris Stephen guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 June 2011 17.04 BST

Rebel authorities in the besieged Libyan enclave of Misrata have introduced tough restrictions on foreign media, banning travel to the frontline, cutting internet access and ordering journalists to work only with officially approved translators.

Insurgent leaders had previously encouraged journalists to move and speak freely throughout the city and frontlines.

Frontline units said they were under instructions not to allow journalists access because of suspicions that some would be working for other interests.

"We are afraid of spies from Gaddafi," said Mohammed Durat, head of the Misrata media centre and a member of the ruling city council. "You need a permission to work here."

Reporters have been denied access to the media centre's fast internet link, used by many foreign press to send stories.

The new rules come amid a change in spirit across much of the city.

After a month of fighting, the armed rebel militia, lacking heavy weapons and armour, has failed to push the frontlines forward. Continual rocket and mortar bombardments by government forces on frontline areas are inflicting a rising death toll, shaking the morale of people in the city.

Misrata is also running short of money. Public service workers and doctors have not been paid since January.

Adding to the sense of despondency is the failure of Nato to make good a threat it delivered, via leaflets, to government forces around Misrata last week, warning them that they would be attacked by Apache helicopters if they continued to strike civilian targets.

Since then, government forces have begun hitting the city itself with a handful of long-range rockets each day, but Nato has yet to offer a decisive response.

The city authorities planned to re-open banks on Sunday to distribute wages, but postponed it with no new date given.

Journalists are regularly questioned about whether there are spies operating among the foreign media, although Durat said he had no knowledge of such questioning. "We want to care about your safety, you should be happy about this," he said.

The mood of officialdom is in sharp contrast to that around the city, where foreign reporters are still given free accommodation and free travel from passing cars. Rebel units, doctors and other citizens have all voiced strong support for the foreign media.

Journalists who have registered with the rebel transitional national council have been ordered to register again with the Misrata authorities. Those failing to do so are required to leave. Translators also have to be approved. Two have been told they might need to return to Benghazi.

Durat insisted the rules were to meant to protect journalists. "We are caring about you, we don't want you to get any bad thing," he said.

It can't be long before the "rebels", or NATO, start actively targeting journalists - as the "Coalition of the Willing" did so routinely in Iraq.

[Magda Hassan]

[Jan Klimkowski]

MSM calling Madsen "Hanoi Wayne" - that's great.

:rofl:

What channel is that clip from? Madsen was allowed to make his points, and the anchor was clearly at least partially sympathetic to his views.

Madsen slagged off Murdoch, ABC, NBC, the NYT and CNN, and then the anchor joined the slagging off with a pre-prepared clip.

Hmmmm...

[Magda Hassan]

It is Russian TV. He is a regular there because he doesn't get much of a airing on US tv. I can't think why.....I find Russian TV quite good on it's coverage of things non Russian much the same way I find Press TV quite good on things non Iranian. :mexican:

[Jan Klimkowski]

It is Russian TV.

With an American anchor?

Propaganda Wars.

:popcorn:

[Albert Doyle]

Obama gave a very patronizing explanation to Chuck of MSNBC at the press conference this morning. He said the Libya action was approved by NATO and the UN and was simply helping the Libyan people free itself of a dictator. He also said he checked with Congress often and explained it to them.


Hmm. I think the US is a place where giving an answer like you are speaking to children isn't acceptable. Someone should remind Mr Obama that America isn't a High School and the American people deserve a response that lives up to the level of intelligence of Americans. There are much more serious issues involved with the Libya action than just offing a dictator. They have to do with a government that is practicing an ever weaker form of democracy where presidents and the military bypass the system that allowed the American people the means by which to judge the most important action of the state - that is, war. So while Obama says we are deposing a dictator with a high American body count he fails to respond to the real substance of the question, which is, "are we deposing one dictatorship in order to replace it with an even more powerful one closer to home?" One that has shown serious signs of not wanting to be controlled by the democratic system that was designed to control it? Previous cases where this military power ruled independently of the system that was designed to control it showed bad results as far as the quality of democracy that followed it in this nation. The Kennedy Assassination being a prime example. It scares me that "Change" president so flagrantly avoids the main question that most Americans would expect the Commander In Chief to respond to honestly and directly.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The Libyan "rebels" have cut a major oil pipeline.

Cui bono?

Sources inside Libya have confirmed a Reuters news agency report last week that rebels had severed the pipeline that connects the Awbari oilfield in southern Libya to the Az-Zawiya refinery outside Tripoli.

A spokesman from the Benghazi-based rebel Interim National Council is quoted as saying that the aim is to "drain Tripoli".

There are also suggestions that anti-Gaddafi forces have managed to cut the gas pipeline used for power generation in Tripoli.

The Az-Zawiya refinery is still working, which suggests there is a store of crude oil to supply the Libyan capital. However, it is thought only to be producing at one-third capacity at present.

The only option is to squeeze Gaddafi out of resources - and the most important of those is fuel. John Hamilton, African EnergyJohn Hamilton, contributing editor for African Energy, believes this could represent the start of the endgame for Colonel Gaddafi and his supporters.

"If you take the view that the rebels can't defeat Gaddafi militarily by invading Tripoli, and that Nato can't defeat him from the air, then the only option is to squeeze him out of resources - and the most important of those is fuel," he told Channel 4 News.

"The rebels seem to have made a definitive decision that they want to cut off Gaddafi's supply of gasoline, in particular. And the logic is that, having cut off the pipelines, they would also do their best to stop road transport."

But it is almost impossible to assess how much crude oil the regime has in storage, which makes it hard to estimate how long Colonel Gaddafi can continue to enjoy popular support in the west of the country.

"The difficulty with the Libyan power sector," says John Hamilton, "is that there is no data. It's impossible to say with any degree of certainly how much power is being used, what will happen, and how many power stations they need still to be operating."

Yesterday Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, suggested that the Libyan leader's days were numbered.

"I don't think we will have to wait a lot. I think if we have enough energy within the states - in two or three months it is game over."

On Wednesday the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, told the House of Commons the first international aid payment of $100m had been made to Libya's Interim National Council.

Donors pledged more than $1.3bn to Libya's rebels at a meeting in the United Arab Emirates earlier in June.

Source.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Originally posted here at DPF by Ed Jewett, with his colour highlighting:


The Sorman Massacre

For once, Thierry Meyssan is not offering us a clinical analysis of geo-political developments. He is reporting on facts that he witnessed firsthand: the story of his friend, Engineer Khaled K. Al-Hamedi. A story of horror and blood where NATO embodies the comeback of barbarism.

By Thierry Meyssan

July 03, 2011 "Voltairenet" --- It was a family celebration, the Libyan way. Everyone had gathered to celebrate the third birthday of little Al-Khweldy. The grand-parents, the brothers and sisters and cousins were crowding inside the family house located in Sorman, 70 Kms West of the capital: a big garden where small houses had been built for the various members of the family, plain, one-floor houses.

No big luxury, just the simplicity of desert people. A quiet and harmonious atmosphere. The grand-father, Marshall Al-Khweldy Al-Hamedi, used to raise birds here. - He is a hero of the Revolution who took part in the overthrow of the monarchy and in his country's liberation from colonial exploitation. All are very proud of him. - The son, Khaled Al-Hamedi, President of IOPCR, one of the most important Arab humaitarian associations, used to raise does. About thirty children were running around among the animals.

They were also preparing the wedding of his brother Mohammed, gone to the front lines to fight against NATO-trained foreign mercenaries. The ceremony was to take place here in a few days' time. His fiancee was already beaming.

Nobody noticed that, among the guests, a spy had sneaked in. He was pretending to twitter his friends. In reality, he had just marked the targets and was relaying them through the social network at NATO Headquarters.

The next day, during the night of 19 to 20 June 2011, at around 2.30 am, Khaled went back home after having visited and assisted compatriots who had fled the Alliance's bombings. He was close enough to his house to hear the hissing of missiles and their explosions.

NATO fired eight of them, of 900 kilos each. The spy had placed markers in each house, including the children's bedrooms. The missiles were dropped a few seconds apart. The grand-parents had time to get out of their house before it was destroyed. It was already too late to rescue the children and grand-children. When the last missile hit their house, the Marshall had the instinctive reaction to shield his wife with his body. They had just stepped out of the door when they were flung fifteen meters away by an explosion. But they survived.

When Khaled arrived, there was only devastation. His wife, whom he loved so much, and the child she was bearing were gone. His children, for whom he would have given anything, were crushed by the explosions and collapsing ceilings.

The houses were left in ruins. Twelve mutilated bodies were lying under the rubble. The does, hit by fragments, were agonising in their pen.

The neighbours who rushed to their rescue silently searched through the debris for any sign of life. Unfortunately, there was no hope. The children didn't stand a chance of escaping the missiles. The corpse of a beheaded child is extracted. The grand-father is reciting verses of the Coran. His voice is firm, he does not cry. His pain is too strong.

[COLOR="#8b0000"]Meanwhile, in Brussels, NATO spokespersons declared to have bombed the headquarters of pro-Ghaddafi militia in order to protect the civilian population from the tyrant who is repressing it.
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It is not known how the whole thing was planned by the targets committee, nor how the chiefs of NATO's general staff followed the unfolding of the operation. [COLOR="purple"]What is clear is that the Atlantic Alliance, with its spruced-up generals and right-thinking diplomats, has decided to murder the chidren of Libyan leaders to break their psychological resistance.

Since the XIIIth century, European theologists and jurists have prohibited the assassination of families. Only the mafia has broken this absolute taboo. The mafia and now NATO.[/COLOR]

On 1st July, when 1.7 million people were demonstrating in Tripoli to defend their country against foreign aggression, Khaled went to the front to bring relief to refugees and the injured. Snipers were waiting for him. They tried to kill him. He was seriously injured; however, according to the doctors, his life is no longer in danger.

NATO's dirty work is not yet finished.


http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Sorman-massacre

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e28474.htm