Libya : A no lie zone

[Christer Forslund]

Tripoli: Voltaire Network concerned about the death threats hanging over Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan

VOLTAIRE NETWORK - TRIPOLI (LIBYA) - 22 AUGUST 2011

Tripoli: Voltaire Network expresses concern about the death threats hanging over Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network, Monday, August 22, 2011, 13:20 GMT - Voltaire Network is concerned about the threats targeting two of its team members in Tripoli. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Research Associate, Centre for Research on Globalization, and Thierry Meyssan, president and founder of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference, are entrenched in the Hotel Rixos, around which heavy fighting is taking place. Reportedly, the order was given to shoot them down.
Thierry Meyssan has been in Tripoli since June 23, 2011. He started out by heading a fact-finding mission of Voltaire Network associates. For the past two months, he has been carrying out a journalistic investigation of the conflict. His stance differs from that of his peers in that: he describes the rebellion as a minority action, permitting to justify in the eyes of world public opinion a classic military operation.
Whatever the positions taken by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan, their killing would be unacceptable. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan are not combatants, but journalists. Those who support this war, thinking that it is about democracy and freedom, can not possibly condone the assassination of journalists.
Currently, five states have offered them diplomatic protection. But the fighting around the hotel prevents them from leaving the premises and some of the embassies concerned have been encircled to make access impossible.
Aware of the threats hanging over them, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Thierry Meyssan have no intention of exposing themselves to any "stray bullet".
Voltaire Network calls on the citizens of those countries involved in the war to exert pressure on their governments to ensure the safety of these journalists. It is asking each and everyone to play his/her role as citizens and to disseminate this information.
For additional information:
Articles by Thierry Meyssan :
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Thierry...
Articles about Thierry Meyssan:
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Thierry...
Articles by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya:
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Mahdi-D...
Voltaire Network articles on Libya:
http://www.voltairenet.org/+-Libye-...

[Jan Klimkowski]

Nothing we didn't know, but for the record:

SAS troopers help co-ordinate rebel attacks in Libya

The serving soldiers have joined British special forces and have been acting as forward air controllers and advising on tactics

Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 23 August 2011 18.25 BST

The Guardian has learned that a number of serving British special forces soldiers, as well as former SAS troopers, are advising and training rebel forces, although their presence is officially denied.

The Guardian has previously reported the presence of former British special forces troops, now employed by private security companies and funded by a number of sources, including Qatar. They have been joined by a number of serving SAS soldiers.

They have been acting as forward air controllers directing pilots to targets and communicating with Nato operational commanders. They have also been advising rebels on tactics, a task they have not found easy.

For the SAS it is a return to old stamping grounds. In one of their first successful missions in the second world war, they attacked airfields in Libya, destroying 60 aircraft. SAS battle honours include Tobruk in 1941 and a raid on Benghazi in 1942.

They returned to Libya in February this year, even before the UN mandate urging states to protect civilians from Gaddafi's forces. Shortly afterwards, a group of SAS soldiers were seized, though quickly released, by nervous rebels south of Benghazi when their Chinook helicopter landed two MI6 officers with communications equipment.

SAS soldiers later advised Misrata-based rebel forces who secured the port city and helped to pass on details of the locations of Gaddafi's forces to British commanders in the UK and the Naples headquarters of Canadian commander of Nato forces, Lt Gen Charles Bouchard.

In what is hoped to be the endgame in the Libyan conflict and the fight to oust Gaddafi, a number of SAS soldiers are now advising the rebels as they storm the capital, Tripoli.

France is understood to have deployed special forces in Libya and Qatari and Jordanian special forces are believed to have also played a role.

[Magda Hassan]

We are the FF, we are the fighters/rebels/Jihadists of the revolution of 17 Feb. and with the help of the guys of High Landalous we entered the city, we have in custody Hala Misrati goon of the dictator. We will show you a small part with Hala Misrati. The whole video we will show it complete when with God's help free inch by inch the whole country. So here with this camera we taped Hala Misrati. .....they are pressuring her to follow the (parade/protest ) of freedom ...I am the child of Hi Landalous (the one who has the gun) ,get out & say to this dog that you served that you are following the new revolution ...Hala: "Which revolution? Good God which revolution? I don't have freedom, I don't have a country, I can not go out on my own! What freedom are you talking about?" ....They insist to her to start swearing against Qaddafi & she answers: "He is the one who gave us dignity," (cannot hear clearly what else she says) , Here the video stops. They say Allah ou Akbar Allah ou Akbar DOG Moammar we freed the country!

[Peter Lemkin]

Word has it, and it seems confirmed, that after much negotiation with the guards left to protect and enprison them, all have been released unharmed, if a bit shaky........:phone:

[Magda Hassan]

You couldn't even make this sort of stuff up. :danceing:

WikiLeaks: McCain promised Gaddafi military help two years ago

Posted Aug 24, 2011, 2:41 pm

Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.com

U.S. Sen. John McCain told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi two years ago that he would help the dictator obtain American military hardware, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable posted Wednesday by WikiLeaks.

On Sunday, McCain said Gaddafi's ouster was "so long in coming" because the U.S. did not use the "full weight of our airpower."

The Arizona Republican, who traveled to Libya in 2009 with Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Liebermann, "pledged to see what he could do to move things forward in Congress," the cable said.

Also in the U.S. delegation, which spoke with Gaddafi and his son, Libyan National Security Advisor Muatassim Gaddafi, were Republican Sens. Lindsay Graham and Susan Collins.

"Muatassim requested the 'highest level of help possible' to obtain military supplies, including mobile hospitals and uniforms. He also requested assistance with upgrading Libya's equipment, including helicopters," the cable said.

On Sunday, McCain and Graham assailed the summer's U.S. policy of assistance for Libyan rebels, saying "Americans can be proud of the role our country has played in helping to defeat Qaddafi, but we regret that this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the United States to employ the full weight of our airpower."

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[Peter Lemkin]

You couldn't even make this sort of stuff up. :danceing:

WikiLeaks: McCain promised Gaddafi military help two years ago

Posted Aug 24, 2011, 2:41 pm

Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.com

U.S. Sen. John McCain told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi two years ago that he would help the dictator obtain American military hardware, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable posted Wednesday by WikiLeaks.

On Sunday, McCain said Gaddafi's ouster was "so long in coming" because the U.S. did not use the "full weight of our airpower."

The Arizona Republican, who traveled to Libya in 2009 with Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Liebermann, "pledged to see what he could do to move things forward in Congress," the cable said.

Also in the U.S. delegation, which spoke with Gaddafi and his son, Libyan National Security Advisor Muatassim Gaddafi, were Republican Sens. Lindsay Graham and Susan Collins.

"Muatassim requested the 'highest level of help possible' to obtain military supplies, including mobile hospitals and uniforms. He also requested assistance with upgrading Libya's equipment, including helicopters," the cable said.

On Sunday, McCain and Graham assailed the summer's U.S. policy of assistance for Libyan rebels, saying "Americans can be proud of the role our country has played in helping to defeat Qaddafi, but we regret that this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the United States to employ the full weight of our airpower."

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Al Jazeera is having some fun with this information!...it is amazing. No surprise Liebermann was involved, as well. Quddafi was our thug anyway....now we'll have to find a new one to run things for us in Libya.....I'm sure the process is well under way. One can only hope the Libyan People find a way to run their own country and control their own oil.....I wish them luck..they will need it!

[Gary Severson]

This from wikipedia is why we can't let Ghadaffi exist. We can't allow him to use the oil revenues for his people. His socialism would set a bad example for all the Westerners that believe CIA propaganda about Libya.



The Libyan economy depends primarily upon revenues from the oil sector, which constitute practically all export earnings and about one-quarter of gross domestic product (GDP). The discovery of the oil and natural gas reserves in the country in 1959 led to the transformation of Libya's economy from a poor country to (then) Africa's richest. The World Bank defines Libya as an 'Upper Middle Income Economy', along with only seven other African countries.[188] In the early 1980s, Libya was one of the wealthiest countries in the world; its GDP per capita was higher than that of developed countries such as Italy, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and New Zealand.[189]
Today, high oil revenues and a small population give Libya one of the highest GDPs per capita in Africa and have allowed the Libyan state to provide an extensive level of social security, particularly in the fields of housing and education.[190] Many problems still beset Libya's economy however; unemployment is the highest in the region at 21%, according to the latest census figures.[191]
Compared to its neighbors, Libya enjoys a low level of both absolute and relative poverty. Libyan officials in the past six years have carried out economic reforms as part of a broader campaign to reintegrate the country into the global capitalist economy.[192] This effort picked up steam after UN sanctions were lifted in September 2003, and as Libya announced in December 2003 that it would abandon programs to build weapons of mass destruction.[193]

[Danny Jarman]

Gadaffi is one of the good guys. Eccentric and overzealous but his intentions have always been good. It's just a shame most of the corrupt Arab leaders disliked him too.

Great speech by him here

[Christer Forslund]

BUSTED AGAIN!: INCREDIBLE FAKE MASS MEDIA FOOTAGE: BBC Shows "Green Square, Libya" FROM INDIA!

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Editor| By George W. Berry

http://crashareyouready.betterthanyours.com/w/?p=2181
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/2011...ied-again/


There's NO Business like SHOW Business: (Click here)
Look at the faces, the hats, and the clothing! They're not even using the right props Look carefully at the flags & the picture that is held up by some one in the "Libyan" crowd! What were these Indians, waving Indian flags, really demonstrating about?
In the meantime, Independent Journalists reporting the TRUTH about Libya HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR MURDER: (Click here)
and NATO is MASS-MURDERING CIVILIANS IN TRIPOLI: (Click here) & (Click here)

Remember "Wag The Dog?" This is FLAG The Dog!
At about 50 seconds into the above video, you see the supposed Libyan National Transitional Council celebrating in the Green Square, and waving flags!

Here is a single frame from the above. Note the flag they are waving, with the light colored center? That is the flag of INDIA! (And the people in the crowd look Indian!

THIS is the flag of the National Transitional Council, recognized by the US as the "legitimate" government of Libya (even though they are not elected).

It looks like BBC couldn't find any celebrating Libyans, so they used an old shot of celebrating Indians and bet that we were too stupid to notice, just like they bet we were too stupid to notice when BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center building 7 before it actually happened!

[Christer Forslund]

Word has it, and it seems confirmed, that after much negotiation with the guards left to protect and enprison them, all have been released unharmed, if a bit shaky........:phone:

Voltaire Network | 24 August 2011

Tripoli, 24 August 2011 at 9:30 p.m., Thierry Meyssan confirmed that he and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya were among the group of journalists who were freed this afternoon from the Rixos Hotel - after several days of siege by NATO "rebel" forces - through the good offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Their evacuation to Malta by sea has been scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, at noon.

Two months after his arrival in Tripoli, the president of Voltaire Network briefly commented about the situation he is about to leave behind as follows: "The center of Tripoli is occupied by the rebels. The population is cloistered inside their homes. Not joy, but terror. No freedom; only foreign occupation. "