Al-Manar
Al Nasser University, Tripoli
Except I wasn’t entirely joking and I felt wistful as I reflected on our latest five hour conversation that seemed like it began only 30 minutes earlier. Rather like one of those rare college classes during which the professors lecture and the classroom discussion were so interesting that you felt disappointed when the class ended.
NATO Bombed Libya's Nasser University
King Idris al-Sanusi was deposedin a bloodless coup led by Col Gaddafi |
Students here in Tripoli report that some of their relatives and friends in the Senussi tribe based in Benghazi know that Al Qaeda elements will oppose a Monarchy even if they are currently mute and for now sticking to their CIA supplied script on this subject of democracy and human rights for all including women.
“Who appointed the Libyan Contact Group to get involved in our country and what legitimacy does its NATO memberships have to order the UN’s Secretary General (7/17/11) to impose conditions for resolving the crisis without both the Tripoli and Benghazi groups involved? Does NATO, having set up the LCG, have the right to order around the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General and his staff?"
“How can the US and NATO pretend to respect international law when NATO has killed more than 1,100 Libya civilians while the language of UN Resolutions 1970 & 1973, which NATO interprets as its sees fit and is using military operations to achieve political goals. Much like it has done in Afghanistan, whereas the UN Resolutions concerning our country limited NATO involvement to establishing a “no-fly zone” which was achieved in two days. Did the UN authorize the additional four months of bombing or the expansion of the original mission to numerous assassination attempts on our leaders and massive infrastructure destruction?”
“Also, why was there no effort to send a UN fact finding mission to our country to really investigate the false sensationalist media and rebel reports coming from the rebels despite repeated Libyan, Arab and African calls for to come and see and establish the facts.”
“Why Libya? We have had good relations with the US and Europe since 2003. It is well known that the CIA and Libya worked together a lot as recently as 2009-2010.
Does the US only attack when a country has oil? Zimbabwe’s government has treated its people much worse than ours but there was no intervention. What about Bahrain, Yemen and Syria? Any civilians being threatened in those countries who need Obama’s humanitarian intervention?” she added sarcastically.
Can all the misinformation about what has happened to our country from the beginning of the third week of February be innocent accidents or poor reporting? For example, all those stories like the Viagra and alcohol fueled rapes, the western media reports of our government mass slaughtering of civilians, Tripoli ready to implode on the top of our leaders, the claims that Colonel Qaddafi has no legitimacy or popular support, that there is chaos in the streets of Tripoli with the population being terrified, or that our leader is wounded and fled to Venezuela and on and on. Who created all these false reports and why?”
“Why did NATO bomb our civilian air traffic control tower last weekend wounding more civilians? Even our airport director said the ATC system is 100% civilian. So have IATA and some American officials.”
“Do the Americans and NATO expect a post Qaddafi Libya will please them more if they succeed is outing our leader? Do they have any idea how much anger their aggression has created among our people? They are making our leader into a very popular personality not just in Libya and Africa with people everywhere who oppose US wars and its attempted hegemony. Can the US and NATO ever hope to bring about reconciliation? Will the next government be all that much better?”
- Libya in Pictures: What the Mainstream Media Does Not Tell You
- France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed, Gaddafi Can Stay "in Another Room of the Palace"
- NATO's War Against Libya's Civilians - Live from Libya
- Libya’s neighborhoods prepare for NATO boots
- “After you Brother!” Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?
River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian
No comments:
Post a Comment