Saturday 27 August 2011
Paris to provide Libya with $3 billion in aid
France plans to provide Libya with humanitarian assistance worth two billion euros ($2.9 bln), French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said on Friday.
"After a meeting between President [Nicolas Sarkozy] and the prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council in Paris, we are working on specific assistance measures we can render Libyans on the national level," Valero told journalists.
"This is several billion euros or dollars, probably over two billion," he said.
The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule began in Libya in February. An international military operation "to protect civilians" in Libya began on March 19 following a UN resolution.
Rebel forces are controlling large swaths of the country and most of the capital, Tripoli. Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) announced on Thursday it would soon start governing the country from Tripoli.
The NTC on Wednesday offered an amnesty, as well as a $1.3-million reward, for anyone who captures or kills Gaddafi.Yet the richest sector of French society are pledging another 3 per cent of their annual income to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis. That's as the French Prime Minister announces some 12 billion Euro worth of cuts, alongside gloomy forecasts for growth. But as RT's Daniel Bushell explains, the move could be too little too late, with fears social unrest could follow......What do you expect apart from riots all over the country ?????
"After a meeting between President [Nicolas Sarkozy] and the prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council in Paris, we are working on specific assistance measures we can render Libyans on the national level," Valero told journalists.
"This is several billion euros or dollars, probably over two billion," he said.
The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule began in Libya in February. An international military operation "to protect civilians" in Libya began on March 19 following a UN resolution.
Rebel forces are controlling large swaths of the country and most of the capital, Tripoli. Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) announced on Thursday it would soon start governing the country from Tripoli.
The NTC on Wednesday offered an amnesty, as well as a $1.3-million reward, for anyone who captures or kills Gaddafi.Yet the richest sector of French society are pledging another 3 per cent of their annual income to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis. That's as the French Prime Minister announces some 12 billion Euro worth of cuts, alongside gloomy forecasts for growth. But as RT's Daniel Bushell explains, the move could be too little too late, with fears social unrest could follow......What do you expect apart from riots all over the country ?????
Libya: The Ivory Coast does not recognize the CNT
Libya: The Ivory Coast does not recognize the CNT
Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the CNT and Western media of the Crusaders and their African relay in their columns published on Friday, August 26, 2011 that the Ivory Coast would have recognized the CNT (National Transition Council), a gang of armed rebels and allies white settlers, as the only legitimate authority in Libya.
This grotesque information, which is inconsistent with the aspirations and the belief of the Sovereign People of Côte d'Ivoire worth including his faith in the true independence of African Nations, we are shocked and thundered like yet another betrayal orchestrated by Ouattara to sully the dignity of the Ivorians.
Also, very respectful of the sovereignty of Nations, the Permanent Revolution felt a duty to respond. Therefore, this article 67-bis of the Permanent Revolution is to remove any ambiguity about the position of Dramane Ouattara on the issue Libyan falsely presented as the real position of the Ivory Coast .
Indeed, we have already noted in the 66th Article of the Permanent Revolution: there are now two Ivory Coast. the Ivory Coast of fictional television imaginary Dramane Ouattara and the real Ivory Coast, of Ivorians who are organizing to get rid of the fraud that affected the country since April 11, 2011, date on which the country has momentarily lost its sovereignty in the same conditions as those going through Libya.
This Ivory Coast remains real standing in the heart and mind of Ivorians, and did not recognize, will never recognize an armed service of the new invaders of Africa, as a legitimate authority?
This accuracy is particularly important as the adage says that "he who is silent consents." So we raise our voices to say: neither close nor far the worthy people of Ivory Coast, will be recognized in the pronouncements of "government" deception and servility of Dramane Ouattara! Standing, the Patriots and worthy of Ivory Coast, Africa join proud to say they recognize that the Libyan leader and his government as the sole legitimate authority that embodies the aspirations of the Libyan people.
Before history, we have expressed our position as Africans deserve. Before history, we have taken an official stand against deception and the colonial Franco-Americano-British re-colonization of Africa. Before history, we dissociate firmly, the vagaries of the voltaic impostor Dramane Ouattara and his gang of thieves, who are temporarily installed at the head of the Ivory Coast under the same conditions as their counterparts in the CNT Libya.
Africa is our land. It will remain to us, son of Africa. And we leave to our descendants, free of vermin Western organized gangs of thugs and thieves to plunder our wealth and enslave our Nations.
While standing, we are to fight the invaders! Standing, we will defeat the thief, the criminal, the scavenger West and its allies engaged in the most servile rural Africa' !
The political underworld is not worthy of Africa. Ouattara is not worthy of the Ivorian president and his positions in African affairs did not commit!
We are Africans and Ivorians free! We do not collaborate with the invaders and destroyers of Africa! Long live Free Libya! Long live Africa Free! Vive la Côte d'Ivoire restored!
See you soon.
Hassane Magued
Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the CNT and Western media of the Crusaders and their African relay in their columns published on Friday, August 26, 2011 that the Ivory Coast would have recognized the CNT (National Transition Council), a gang of armed rebels and allies white settlers, as the only legitimate authority in Libya.
This grotesque information, which is inconsistent with the aspirations and the belief of the Sovereign People of Côte d'Ivoire worth including his faith in the true independence of African Nations, we are shocked and thundered like yet another betrayal orchestrated by Ouattara to sully the dignity of the Ivorians.
Also, very respectful of the sovereignty of Nations, the Permanent Revolution felt a duty to respond. Therefore, this article 67-bis of the Permanent Revolution is to remove any ambiguity about the position of Dramane Ouattara on the issue Libyan falsely presented as the real position of the Ivory Coast .
Indeed, we have already noted in the 66th Article of the Permanent Revolution: there are now two Ivory Coast. the Ivory Coast of fictional television imaginary Dramane Ouattara and the real Ivory Coast, of Ivorians who are organizing to get rid of the fraud that affected the country since April 11, 2011, date on which the country has momentarily lost its sovereignty in the same conditions as those going through Libya.
This Ivory Coast remains real standing in the heart and mind of Ivorians, and did not recognize, will never recognize an armed service of the new invaders of Africa, as a legitimate authority?
This accuracy is particularly important as the adage says that "he who is silent consents." So we raise our voices to say: neither close nor far the worthy people of Ivory Coast, will be recognized in the pronouncements of "government" deception and servility of Dramane Ouattara! Standing, the Patriots and worthy of Ivory Coast, Africa join proud to say they recognize that the Libyan leader and his government as the sole legitimate authority that embodies the aspirations of the Libyan people.
Before history, we have expressed our position as Africans deserve. Before history, we have taken an official stand against deception and the colonial Franco-Americano-British re-colonization of Africa. Before history, we dissociate firmly, the vagaries of the voltaic impostor Dramane Ouattara and his gang of thieves, who are temporarily installed at the head of the Ivory Coast under the same conditions as their counterparts in the CNT Libya.
Africa is our land. It will remain to us, son of Africa. And we leave to our descendants, free of vermin Western organized gangs of thugs and thieves to plunder our wealth and enslave our Nations.
While standing, we are to fight the invaders! Standing, we will defeat the thief, the criminal, the scavenger West and its allies engaged in the most servile rural Africa' !
The political underworld is not worthy of Africa. Ouattara is not worthy of the Ivorian president and his positions in African affairs did not commit!
We are Africans and Ivorians free! We do not collaborate with the invaders and destroyers of Africa! Long live Free Libya! Long live Africa Free! Vive la Côte d'Ivoire restored!
See you soon.
Hassane Magued
Libya: the curtain is up on the role of NATO with rebels
Libya: the curtain is up on the role of NATO with rebels
AFP - 26. August 2011, 4:53 p.m.
The role of active support to the rebels by some NATO forces in Libya, including in the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi and his family, is becoming increasingly clear, despite official denials of the alliance claiming to stick to the strict mandate of the UN.
A Royal Air Force Tornado is moving toward a hangar after landing in Norfolk March 19, 2011
A Royal Air Force Tornado A Royal Air Force is moving toward a hangar after landing in Norfolk March 19, 2011 AFP / File
The British Minister for Defence Liam Fox June 21, 2011 in London AFP / File
The UK in particular, spearheaded alongside of France who triggered the intervention six months ago, takes less precaution.
Its Ministry of Defence said on Friday that British planes had bombed at night a large bunker in Sirte used as HQ in the hometown of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on the run, just as the search for the "Guide" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is a priority of the insurgents.
The day before, the British Minister of Defence Liam Fox was openly acknowledge the contribution of NATO in search of Muammar Gaddafi.
"I can confirm that NATO provides information and reconnaissance equipment to the National Transition Council to help locate Colonel Gaddafi and other remaining members of the regime," said Liam Fox, the taking-up against official statements of the Atlantic Alliance.
NATO continues to assert(lie) that it does not liaise with the rebels and it is not Gaddafi. "There is no military coordination with the rebels," said the spokesman for the Alliance Oana Lungescu, "we are conducting operations in Libya according to the letter our mandate" of the Security Council of the UN limiting the action to protect civilians.(LIES)
For Shashank Joshi, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London, this is purely a precautionary oratory.
NATO's assertion "is totally absurd," he says, "it is a necessary fiction to stick to the limits of UN Resolution 1973 and avoid legal problems and policies, "said he.
Russia and China in particular had both abstained to veto in the Security Council in February with the resolution 1973 which paved the way for Western intervention, but have been quick to blame the allies to go beyond their prerogatives.
"There are elements showing very clearly that NATO has not only helped the rebels but was a decisive and crucial partner for them. She was involved in a coordination andvery close support , without which the rebels couldn't have get so far in the conflict "Judge M. Joshi.
According to British newspaper Daily Telegraph, members of the SAS (Special Air Service) are deployed on the ground in Libya for several weeks and played a key role in coordinating the battle of Tripoli, while NATO claims to have no soldiers on the ground.
And according to an AFP journalist in Libya, French agents operating undercover are present for several weeks with the rebels on the Eastern Front. The French Government also acknowledged in the past, air drops of weapons to the attention of the Jebel Nefoussa rebels in the west.
A Western official, who requested anonymity, said that if the special forces are well on the ground they "follow the orders of their national commands" and not NATO as such.
For François Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), the role of special forces alongside the Libyan rebels is very important "for the designation of targets, coordination between ground and air fronts, the supply of arms and education ".
AFP - 26. August 2011, 4:53 p.m.
The role of active support to the rebels by some NATO forces in Libya, including in the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi and his family, is becoming increasingly clear, despite official denials of the alliance claiming to stick to the strict mandate of the UN.
A Royal Air Force Tornado is moving toward a hangar after landing in Norfolk March 19, 2011
A Royal Air Force Tornado A Royal Air Force is moving toward a hangar after landing in Norfolk March 19, 2011 AFP / File
The British Minister for Defence Liam Fox June 21, 2011 in London AFP / File
The UK in particular, spearheaded alongside of France who triggered the intervention six months ago, takes less precaution.
Its Ministry of Defence said on Friday that British planes had bombed at night a large bunker in Sirte used as HQ in the hometown of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on the run, just as the search for the "Guide" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is a priority of the insurgents.
The day before, the British Minister of Defence Liam Fox was openly acknowledge the contribution of NATO in search of Muammar Gaddafi.
"I can confirm that NATO provides information and reconnaissance equipment to the National Transition Council to help locate Colonel Gaddafi and other remaining members of the regime," said Liam Fox, the taking-up against official statements of the Atlantic Alliance.
NATO continues to assert(lie) that it does not liaise with the rebels and it is not Gaddafi. "There is no military coordination with the rebels," said the spokesman for the Alliance Oana Lungescu, "we are conducting operations in Libya according to the letter our mandate" of the Security Council of the UN limiting the action to protect civilians.(LIES)
For Shashank Joshi, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London, this is purely a precautionary oratory.
NATO's assertion "is totally absurd," he says, "it is a necessary fiction to stick to the limits of UN Resolution 1973 and avoid legal problems and policies, "said he.
Russia and China in particular had both abstained to veto in the Security Council in February with the resolution 1973 which paved the way for Western intervention, but have been quick to blame the allies to go beyond their prerogatives.
"There are elements showing very clearly that NATO has not only helped the rebels but was a decisive and crucial partner for them. She was involved in a coordination andvery close support , without which the rebels couldn't have get so far in the conflict "Judge M. Joshi.
According to British newspaper Daily Telegraph, members of the SAS (Special Air Service) are deployed on the ground in Libya for several weeks and played a key role in coordinating the battle of Tripoli, while NATO claims to have no soldiers on the ground.
And according to an AFP journalist in Libya, French agents operating undercover are present for several weeks with the rebels on the Eastern Front. The French Government also acknowledged in the past, air drops of weapons to the attention of the Jebel Nefoussa rebels in the west.
A Western official, who requested anonymity, said that if the special forces are well on the ground they "follow the orders of their national commands" and not NATO as such.
For François Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), the role of special forces alongside the Libyan rebels is very important "for the designation of targets, coordination between ground and air fronts, the supply of arms and education ".
Thursday 18 August 2011
Libya and the end of Western illusions
Libya and the end of Western illusions
The Libyan army soldiersFive months after the bombing began, it is no longer possible to believe the official version of the early events in Libya and massacres attributed to "Gaddafi regime." Simultaneously, we must now take account of legal and diplomatic response of Libyan highlighting crimes against peace committed by TV propaganda, war crimes perpetrated by NATO military, and crimes against humanity committed by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance.
Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on incorrect information. They actually believe, in fact taht the "Gaddafi regime" was bloodily suppressing demonstrations in Benghazi in February and bombed neighborhoods in Tripoli, while the colonel himself had promised to pour "rivers of blood" if his compatriots continued to challenge his authority.
In two months of fieldwork, I could see for myself that these accusations are borne of pure propaganda, designed by the NATO powers to create the conditions of war, and relayed around the world over their television Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and France24.
The reader who knows where to be in this debate and, despite the brainwashing of September 11 and weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein, is reluctant to consider that the United States, France, the UK and Qatar were able to fabricate such lies, however, can form an opinion over time. NATO, the largest military coalition in history, failed bombing in five months to reverse the one she described as a "tyrant." Every Friday, a large demonstration in support of the plan is organized in a different city in the country and all experts now agree that Colonel Gaddafi has at least 90% of popular support in Tripolitania and at 70% across the entire country, including areas "rebels". These people suffer every day of the blockade, aerial bombardment and ground fighting. They never argue with their flesh and blood individual who has committed crimes against them which he is accused by the "international community". The difference between those who believe in the West that Gaddafi is a tyrant who has drawn on his own people, and those who believe that Libya is a hero of the anti-imperialist struggle is that the former live in illusion created by propaganda TV, while others have on-site experience of reality.
This said. There is a second illusion suffered by the West-and I include now in the court "Western", not only but also the monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey, although Eastern culture that have chosen this camp: they still think it is still possible to devastate a country and kill its people without legal consequences. It is true that, until now, international justice has been a justice of the victors or the powerful. We remember the Nazi official who addressed him the judges at Nuremberg telling them that if Reich had won the war, it would be that the Nazis and the Allies that judges should be accountable for their war crimes. More recently, we saw the use by NATO's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to try to justify a posteriori that the war in Kosovo was "the first humanitarian war in history," according to the expression Tony Blair. Or how the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, was used to try to overthrow the Syrian government and to decapitate the Lebanese Hezbollah, and probably soon to accuse the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Not to mention the International Criminal Court, the secular European colonial powers in Africa.
However, the development of instruments and organs of international justice in the twentieth century has gradually established an international order in which the superpowers themselves will have to comply, where they will sabotage to escape their responsibilities. In the case of Libya, there are countless violations of international law. Here are the main, as they were established by the Provisional Technical organ Libyan-ministerial coordination and described by counsel for the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the French Marcel Ceccaldi [1], at various conferences press.
TV channels which, under the leadership of their respective Governments, have manufactured false information to lead to war, are guilty of "crimes against peace", as defined by the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly of the UN adopted in the aftermath of World War II [2]
The journalist-propagandists should be considered more culpable even than the military who carried out war crimes or crimes against humanity, to the extent that any of these crimes have been possible without the one that preceded the "crime against peace."
Political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance who hijacked the Resolution 1973 of the object to engage in a war of aggression against a sovereign state is personally responsible to the International Justice. According to the jurisprudence in the aftermath of World War II by the Tokyo Tribunal, the crimes are not the result of states or organizations, but individuals. Plunder the assets of a state, establish a naval blockade and bombing of infrastructure for hurting people, attacking an army in its barracks and ordered to assassinate enemy leaders, and failing, to terrorize them by murdering their families, are much of war crimes. The commission of systematic, as is the case today, is a crime against humanity. This crime is inalienable, which means that MM. Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron and Al-Thani will be prosecuted by the Justice for life.
NATO as an organization, is legally responsible for material and human damage of this war. There is no doubt right that it must pay, even though it surely will try to invoke a privilege of jurisdiction to escape its responsibilities. It is then for the Alliance to see how to divide the bill for the conflict between Member States, even though some of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. This will be followed disastrous economic consequences for their people, guilty of these crimes endorsed. And in a democracy no one can claim to be innocent of the crimes committed in its name.
International Justice will have to address more specifically the case of "government" Sarkozy-I used here to emphasize that this anglicism now the French president led directly to the policy of his government without going through his prime minister-. Indeed, France has played a central role in preparing for this war in October 2010 by organizing a failed attempt of military coup and then by planning with the United Kingdom as early as November 2010 bombing of Libya and a landing ground which was believed then possible, and finally by actively participating in deadly unrest in Benghazi which led to the war. In addition, France, more than any other power, has deployed special forces on the ground, certainly without their uniforms, and violated the arms embargo on supplying the insurgents, either directly or through aircraft-Qatari. Not to mention that France has violated UN freezing of Libyan assets, diverting some of the fabulous cash of the Fund for the benefit of Libyan ruler puppet of CNT at the expense of the Libyan people who believed the well-being of its children after the oil exhausted.
These gentlemen of NATO hoped to escape international justice in a few days by crushing their victim, Libya, so qu'ellel would have survived to continue, will have become disillusioned. Libya is still there. She filed complaints with the International Criminal Court, the Belgian courts (jurisdiction on which NATO), the European Court of Justice, national courts of aggressor states. It conducts business before the Council of Human Rights in Geneva, the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations. It will not be possible for big powers to put out fires all at once. Worse, the arguments they use to escape from a court before they will turn against one another. In a few weeks in a few months if they have not succeeded in destroying Tripoli, they will not have other loopholes to avoid convictions as humiliating to negotiate a high price for the withdrawal of complaints.
Thierry Meyssan
The Libyan army soldiersFive months after the bombing began, it is no longer possible to believe the official version of the early events in Libya and massacres attributed to "Gaddafi regime." Simultaneously, we must now take account of legal and diplomatic response of Libyan highlighting crimes against peace committed by TV propaganda, war crimes perpetrated by NATO military, and crimes against humanity committed by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance.
Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on incorrect information. They actually believe, in fact taht the "Gaddafi regime" was bloodily suppressing demonstrations in Benghazi in February and bombed neighborhoods in Tripoli, while the colonel himself had promised to pour "rivers of blood" if his compatriots continued to challenge his authority.
In two months of fieldwork, I could see for myself that these accusations are borne of pure propaganda, designed by the NATO powers to create the conditions of war, and relayed around the world over their television Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and France24.
The reader who knows where to be in this debate and, despite the brainwashing of September 11 and weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein, is reluctant to consider that the United States, France, the UK and Qatar were able to fabricate such lies, however, can form an opinion over time. NATO, the largest military coalition in history, failed bombing in five months to reverse the one she described as a "tyrant." Every Friday, a large demonstration in support of the plan is organized in a different city in the country and all experts now agree that Colonel Gaddafi has at least 90% of popular support in Tripolitania and at 70% across the entire country, including areas "rebels". These people suffer every day of the blockade, aerial bombardment and ground fighting. They never argue with their flesh and blood individual who has committed crimes against them which he is accused by the "international community". The difference between those who believe in the West that Gaddafi is a tyrant who has drawn on his own people, and those who believe that Libya is a hero of the anti-imperialist struggle is that the former live in illusion created by propaganda TV, while others have on-site experience of reality.
This said. There is a second illusion suffered by the West-and I include now in the court "Western", not only but also the monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey, although Eastern culture that have chosen this camp: they still think it is still possible to devastate a country and kill its people without legal consequences. It is true that, until now, international justice has been a justice of the victors or the powerful. We remember the Nazi official who addressed him the judges at Nuremberg telling them that if Reich had won the war, it would be that the Nazis and the Allies that judges should be accountable for their war crimes. More recently, we saw the use by NATO's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to try to justify a posteriori that the war in Kosovo was "the first humanitarian war in history," according to the expression Tony Blair. Or how the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, was used to try to overthrow the Syrian government and to decapitate the Lebanese Hezbollah, and probably soon to accuse the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Not to mention the International Criminal Court, the secular European colonial powers in Africa.
However, the development of instruments and organs of international justice in the twentieth century has gradually established an international order in which the superpowers themselves will have to comply, where they will sabotage to escape their responsibilities. In the case of Libya, there are countless violations of international law. Here are the main, as they were established by the Provisional Technical organ Libyan-ministerial coordination and described by counsel for the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the French Marcel Ceccaldi [1], at various conferences press.
TV channels which, under the leadership of their respective Governments, have manufactured false information to lead to war, are guilty of "crimes against peace", as defined by the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly of the UN adopted in the aftermath of World War II [2]
The journalist-propagandists should be considered more culpable even than the military who carried out war crimes or crimes against humanity, to the extent that any of these crimes have been possible without the one that preceded the "crime against peace."
Political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance who hijacked the Resolution 1973 of the object to engage in a war of aggression against a sovereign state is personally responsible to the International Justice. According to the jurisprudence in the aftermath of World War II by the Tokyo Tribunal, the crimes are not the result of states or organizations, but individuals. Plunder the assets of a state, establish a naval blockade and bombing of infrastructure for hurting people, attacking an army in its barracks and ordered to assassinate enemy leaders, and failing, to terrorize them by murdering their families, are much of war crimes. The commission of systematic, as is the case today, is a crime against humanity. This crime is inalienable, which means that MM. Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron and Al-Thani will be prosecuted by the Justice for life.
NATO as an organization, is legally responsible for material and human damage of this war. There is no doubt right that it must pay, even though it surely will try to invoke a privilege of jurisdiction to escape its responsibilities. It is then for the Alliance to see how to divide the bill for the conflict between Member States, even though some of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. This will be followed disastrous economic consequences for their people, guilty of these crimes endorsed. And in a democracy no one can claim to be innocent of the crimes committed in its name.
International Justice will have to address more specifically the case of "government" Sarkozy-I used here to emphasize that this anglicism now the French president led directly to the policy of his government without going through his prime minister-. Indeed, France has played a central role in preparing for this war in October 2010 by organizing a failed attempt of military coup and then by planning with the United Kingdom as early as November 2010 bombing of Libya and a landing ground which was believed then possible, and finally by actively participating in deadly unrest in Benghazi which led to the war. In addition, France, more than any other power, has deployed special forces on the ground, certainly without their uniforms, and violated the arms embargo on supplying the insurgents, either directly or through aircraft-Qatari. Not to mention that France has violated UN freezing of Libyan assets, diverting some of the fabulous cash of the Fund for the benefit of Libyan ruler puppet of CNT at the expense of the Libyan people who believed the well-being of its children after the oil exhausted.
These gentlemen of NATO hoped to escape international justice in a few days by crushing their victim, Libya, so qu'ellel would have survived to continue, will have become disillusioned. Libya is still there. She filed complaints with the International Criminal Court, the Belgian courts (jurisdiction on which NATO), the European Court of Justice, national courts of aggressor states. It conducts business before the Council of Human Rights in Geneva, the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations. It will not be possible for big powers to put out fires all at once. Worse, the arguments they use to escape from a court before they will turn against one another. In a few weeks in a few months if they have not succeeded in destroying Tripoli, they will not have other loopholes to avoid convictions as humiliating to negotiate a high price for the withdrawal of complaints.
Thierry Meyssan
Sunday 7 August 2011
US Senator: Obama Administration 'Wrong' on Ivory Coast
US Senator: Obama Administration 'Wrong' on Ivory Coast
A U.S. senator says President Barak Obama’s administration “got it wrong” in its handling of the ongoing crisis in Ivory Coast following violent clashes between rival forces, which has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands fleeing the West African conflict.
In a VOA interview, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma says the Obama administration is backing the wrong side in the conflict and offered to provide evidence that it was mathematically impossible for Alassane Ouattara to win the disputed November presidential run-off vote over embattled President Laurent Gbagbo.
“I do know that the French have always had pretty much control of the government in the Ivory Coast and that’s just the way the French operate, until President Gbagbo got there and, of course, the French have been running against him ever since that time,” said Inhofe.
Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma
“I have shown on the Senate floor how they took the margin of victory that went to Ouattara… what precincts they stole that vote at and how they miscalculated it. How is it statistically possible for the primary election for Gbagbo to have received thousands and thousands of votes in that northern part of Cote d’Ivoire and then, in the run-off, he got zero? Statistically, that is impossible,” he added.
However, Inhofe acknowledges that his concerns about what he calls a “stolen election” have been overtaken by current events. Inhofe, who is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says France is leading the charge to force Gbagbo to step down and cede power to Ouattara.
“The French have come in and over a thousand people have been killed in Deukoue, a town in the western part, and those were the people who are Gbagbo supporters. So it’s a reign of terror by Ouattara and it’s supported by the French... [I] am afraid I’m losing this one, but somebody has to tell the truth,” Inhofe said.
France has denied the accusation of killing civilians. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says his government is working within the framework of international law, notably U.N. mandates, to protect civilians. He said France has no intention of deploying a more offensive foreign policy.
“Absolutely, they [Obama administration] had it wrong. They are wrong and I have sent letters to the secretary of state and to the administration giving them evidence of the election. It was totally ignored and so I criticized my own administration, as well as the French,” Inhofe added.
The United Nations is investigating reports of massacres in Duekoue, which pro-Ouattara forces seized from Gbagbo troops last week. Both sides have been blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths since post-election violence began last December.
Inhofe also says the United Nations violated its charter by using military force against Gbagbo loyalists.
“They went in and immediately assumed that it was a legitimate election and, yet, we have all the evidence to the contrary. By the way, there are a lot of people in Africa who agree with me,” he said.
The Obama administration says Gbagbo lost a legitimate election judged by poll observers as free and fair. It has repeatedly called on Gbagbo to step down and cede power to Ouattara, who the international community recognizes as winner of last November's election.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Inhofe cited one official regional election return document suggesting Ouattara was credited with more than 90,000 votes beyond what was actually tallied. The Senator asked the administration to change its position and call for a new internationally-monitored vote.
Meanwhile, Ouattara forces launched an assault on Gbagbo’s home Wednesday after he refused to admit electoral defeat and surrender. The forces met strong resistance from pro-Gbagbo troops, despite the fact that most solders from the regular army have laid down their arms.
Witnesses say they heard gunfire and explosions from the compound where Gbagbo, along with members of his family, is believed to be holed up. The fighting died down around midday Wednesday. Witnesses say the Ouattara forces retreated.
Aides to Ouattara say the fighters have been told to capture Gbagbo alive.
A Gbagbo spokesman said U.N. and French forces were involved in the assault, an allegation French officials have denied.
A U.S. senator says President Barak Obama’s administration “got it wrong” in its handling of the ongoing crisis in Ivory Coast following violent clashes between rival forces, which has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands fleeing the West African conflict.
In a VOA interview, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma says the Obama administration is backing the wrong side in the conflict and offered to provide evidence that it was mathematically impossible for Alassane Ouattara to win the disputed November presidential run-off vote over embattled President Laurent Gbagbo.
“I do know that the French have always had pretty much control of the government in the Ivory Coast and that’s just the way the French operate, until President Gbagbo got there and, of course, the French have been running against him ever since that time,” said Inhofe.
Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma
“I have shown on the Senate floor how they took the margin of victory that went to Ouattara… what precincts they stole that vote at and how they miscalculated it. How is it statistically possible for the primary election for Gbagbo to have received thousands and thousands of votes in that northern part of Cote d’Ivoire and then, in the run-off, he got zero? Statistically, that is impossible,” he added.
However, Inhofe acknowledges that his concerns about what he calls a “stolen election” have been overtaken by current events. Inhofe, who is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says France is leading the charge to force Gbagbo to step down and cede power to Ouattara.
“The French have come in and over a thousand people have been killed in Deukoue, a town in the western part, and those were the people who are Gbagbo supporters. So it’s a reign of terror by Ouattara and it’s supported by the French... [I] am afraid I’m losing this one, but somebody has to tell the truth,” Inhofe said.
France has denied the accusation of killing civilians. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says his government is working within the framework of international law, notably U.N. mandates, to protect civilians. He said France has no intention of deploying a more offensive foreign policy.
“Absolutely, they [Obama administration] had it wrong. They are wrong and I have sent letters to the secretary of state and to the administration giving them evidence of the election. It was totally ignored and so I criticized my own administration, as well as the French,” Inhofe added.
The United Nations is investigating reports of massacres in Duekoue, which pro-Ouattara forces seized from Gbagbo troops last week. Both sides have been blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths since post-election violence began last December.
Inhofe also says the United Nations violated its charter by using military force against Gbagbo loyalists.
“They went in and immediately assumed that it was a legitimate election and, yet, we have all the evidence to the contrary. By the way, there are a lot of people in Africa who agree with me,” he said.
The Obama administration says Gbagbo lost a legitimate election judged by poll observers as free and fair. It has repeatedly called on Gbagbo to step down and cede power to Ouattara, who the international community recognizes as winner of last November's election.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Inhofe cited one official regional election return document suggesting Ouattara was credited with more than 90,000 votes beyond what was actually tallied. The Senator asked the administration to change its position and call for a new internationally-monitored vote.
Meanwhile, Ouattara forces launched an assault on Gbagbo’s home Wednesday after he refused to admit electoral defeat and surrender. The forces met strong resistance from pro-Gbagbo troops, despite the fact that most solders from the regular army have laid down their arms.
Witnesses say they heard gunfire and explosions from the compound where Gbagbo, along with members of his family, is believed to be holed up. The fighting died down around midday Wednesday. Witnesses say the Ouattara forces retreated.
Aides to Ouattara say the fighters have been told to capture Gbagbo alive.
A Gbagbo spokesman said U.N. and French forces were involved in the assault, an allegation French officials have denied.
On Reprisals in Cote d'Ivoire, Juppe & UN Speak of Past But Not Protection
On Reprisals in Cote d'Ivoire, Juppe & UN Speak of Past But Not Protection
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, June 7 -- Amid reports of attacks on supporters of Laurent Gbagbo by the forces of Alassane Ouattara in Cote d'Ivoire, there appears to have been a hiatus in the “protection of civilians” trumpeted earlier this year by the UN and the French “Force Licorne” or Unicorn.
Last week Inner City Press asked the UN what its mission in Ivory Coast, ONUCI, is doing to protect civilians, and how it responds to reports of the killings of those perceived to support Gbagbo. Transcript below. So far there has been no answer.
On June 7 outside the UN Security Council, where previously France's Ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud spoke at length about the need for a resolution to empower UN and French attack helicopters to “protect civilians,” Inner City Press asked Araud's boss French foreign minister Alain Juppe what France is doing to protect civilians:
Inner City Press: I want to ask on Côte d’Ivoire, whe[ther] the Force Licorne has a responsibility to protect civilians, even now. There has been a report of Ouattara’s forces engaged in reprisal killings, is Licorne still on the streets to defend people or is it to return to its [base] ?
Alain Juppe: Please don’t mix everything. In Libya we think that we are acting in the framework of resolution 1973 of the Security Council. We are targeting military objectives and we are avoiding the civilian casualties. On Côte d’Ivoire, everybody recognized that our intervention has been successful. We are now supporting the process of national reconciliation engaged by President Ouattara and President Ouattara said that there will not be impunity for any kind of massacres or of casualties made either by one side or the other one.
But the allegations are not only of impunity for killings before Gbagbo was seized, but after. Human rights groups report on killings since then, presumably with ONUCI and Licorne standing by.
Juppe & Ban Ki-moon on June 7, protection of civilians not shown
Like Juppe, the UN has not answered. From the UN's June 2 noon briefing transcript:
Inner City Press: there have been at least a number of major NGO [non-governmental organization] reports out about the killing of pro-Gbagbo supporters by Ouattara forces since Gbagbo was put under arrest. There is also an ICG report saying that the Government formed by Ouattara has virtually no members of Gbagbo’s party. So, on both of these two fronts, both the protection of civilians and on the sort of, quote, reconciliation, what does UNOCI [United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire] say? It seems that both of these respected NGOs have said that things are not going well, that the retaliation killings taking place, which presumably UNOCI should be trying to stop -- So, what’s the UN’s response to that?
Associate Spokesperson: On human rights violation and abuses, there is the international commission of inquiry. It’s about to report — it was in Côte d'Ivoire, maybe it still is — and it’s about to report to the Human Rights Council in June, that session. So, I can check for the exact date if that’s helpful, but I think it would be that first and then I think the High Commissioner also will have a report during that session, also in June, in Geneva on Côte d'Ivoire. So, that’s the first thing. On the formation of the Government, I don’t really have a comment.
Inner City Press: Just to be clear, and I am talking about what UNOCI does day to day to quote, protect civilians, which is part of its mandate.
Associate Spokesperson: Yeah, yeah.
Inner City Press: Human Rights Watch is saying that since 11 April.. Gbagbo supporters have been killed in the Yopougon neighbourhood. So, I wanted to know… it’s not happening? Is UNOCI trying to stop it? it seems like a very different picture than what UNOCI is saying.
Associate Spokesperson: Well, UNOCI’s mandate includes the protection of civilians, as you know. So, if there are allegations they’ll certainly go and investigate them. They have a human rights division, and it documents human rights abuses and violations. I can check specifically if you want the Yopougon thing, okay. Anyone else?
But in the five days since, the UN has provided no answer. And on June 7, the Spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, Martin Nesirky, rushed in a nine minute noon briefing at exactly the time Alain Juppe was speaking at the Security Council, such that no questions could be asked of the UN. Watch this site.
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, June 7 -- Amid reports of attacks on supporters of Laurent Gbagbo by the forces of Alassane Ouattara in Cote d'Ivoire, there appears to have been a hiatus in the “protection of civilians” trumpeted earlier this year by the UN and the French “Force Licorne” or Unicorn.
Last week Inner City Press asked the UN what its mission in Ivory Coast, ONUCI, is doing to protect civilians, and how it responds to reports of the killings of those perceived to support Gbagbo. Transcript below. So far there has been no answer.
On June 7 outside the UN Security Council, where previously France's Ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud spoke at length about the need for a resolution to empower UN and French attack helicopters to “protect civilians,” Inner City Press asked Araud's boss French foreign minister Alain Juppe what France is doing to protect civilians:
Inner City Press: I want to ask on Côte d’Ivoire, whe[ther] the Force Licorne has a responsibility to protect civilians, even now. There has been a report of Ouattara’s forces engaged in reprisal killings, is Licorne still on the streets to defend people or is it to return to its [base] ?
Alain Juppe: Please don’t mix everything. In Libya we think that we are acting in the framework of resolution 1973 of the Security Council. We are targeting military objectives and we are avoiding the civilian casualties. On Côte d’Ivoire, everybody recognized that our intervention has been successful. We are now supporting the process of national reconciliation engaged by President Ouattara and President Ouattara said that there will not be impunity for any kind of massacres or of casualties made either by one side or the other one.
But the allegations are not only of impunity for killings before Gbagbo was seized, but after. Human rights groups report on killings since then, presumably with ONUCI and Licorne standing by.
Juppe & Ban Ki-moon on June 7, protection of civilians not shown
Like Juppe, the UN has not answered. From the UN's June 2 noon briefing transcript:
Inner City Press: there have been at least a number of major NGO [non-governmental organization] reports out about the killing of pro-Gbagbo supporters by Ouattara forces since Gbagbo was put under arrest. There is also an ICG report saying that the Government formed by Ouattara has virtually no members of Gbagbo’s party. So, on both of these two fronts, both the protection of civilians and on the sort of, quote, reconciliation, what does UNOCI [United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire] say? It seems that both of these respected NGOs have said that things are not going well, that the retaliation killings taking place, which presumably UNOCI should be trying to stop -- So, what’s the UN’s response to that?
Associate Spokesperson: On human rights violation and abuses, there is the international commission of inquiry. It’s about to report — it was in Côte d'Ivoire, maybe it still is — and it’s about to report to the Human Rights Council in June, that session. So, I can check for the exact date if that’s helpful, but I think it would be that first and then I think the High Commissioner also will have a report during that session, also in June, in Geneva on Côte d'Ivoire. So, that’s the first thing. On the formation of the Government, I don’t really have a comment.
Inner City Press: Just to be clear, and I am talking about what UNOCI does day to day to quote, protect civilians, which is part of its mandate.
Associate Spokesperson: Yeah, yeah.
Inner City Press: Human Rights Watch is saying that since 11 April.. Gbagbo supporters have been killed in the Yopougon neighbourhood. So, I wanted to know… it’s not happening? Is UNOCI trying to stop it? it seems like a very different picture than what UNOCI is saying.
Associate Spokesperson: Well, UNOCI’s mandate includes the protection of civilians, as you know. So, if there are allegations they’ll certainly go and investigate them. They have a human rights division, and it documents human rights abuses and violations. I can check specifically if you want the Yopougon thing, okay. Anyone else?
But in the five days since, the UN has provided no answer. And on June 7, the Spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, Martin Nesirky, rushed in a nine minute noon briefing at exactly the time Alain Juppe was speaking at the Security Council, such that no questions could be asked of the UN. Watch this site.
Massacres in Côte d'Ivoire: Who the UN is mocking ?
Massacres in Côte d'Ivoire: Who the UN is mocking ?
The UN in his recent statements tried to prouve his neutrality and arbitrage in the outcome of the macabre post-election crisis in Côte d'Ivoire as it is directly involved, even accused by some international human right groups. Indeed, the UN should respond to Amnesty International charges against him on his passivity and complicity in the massacres in Côte d'Ivoire. In which case, the UN must assume the crimes committed byOuattara rebels , these mercenaries and militias it has maintained, equipped and supported to overthrow President Gbagbo from power. In view of the events which occurred in Côte d'Ivoire, one can easily say that the UN had a mission other than peacekeeping and the protection of civilians. It was rather a mission of support and protection with 900 UN soldiers to Ouattara (Mr. Choi said once in Dakar and before the bombing: "The protection of Alassane Ouattara at the Hotel du Golf is our priority "). The UN also had a wartime mission. With the purchase of 2 war helicopters and Mi24 heavy weapons, the UN had bombed the camps and positions of the sovereign Ivorian regular army and to facilitate taking of the country b yOuattara FRCI . These bombing caused many deaths within the civilian population and thousands of damage. The UN had bought a lot of weapons. We remember the hundreds of containers loaded with weapons of war to the UN, seized in Douala by Cameroon authorities, then forwarded in the Ivory Coast. These weapons were used by the UN troops and mercenaries of Ouattara. The UN has fought openly with the French forces alongside Ouattara men (FRCI) and this through a media the world's medias to indicate that it would introduce the démocraitie in Ivory Coast. Was it his role? Today, the UN organizes training seminars against FRCI Ouattara on management and human behavior to the peaceful population. This proves that the UN knows it is dealing with wild and bloodthirsty forces(FRCI). Note that most of Alassane FRCI are illiterate. Fort of the foregoing, the UN can not be neutral nor referee. It can not be given credibility to his post-election surveys in Côte d'Ivoire. Because his responsibility is very involved in the massacres and atrocities in that country. The UN has been severely discredited. And the most glaring is its set of calculation on the number of victims in this crisis. Starting with 300 then 500 dead at first, she now speaks 1012 dead after criticism and revelations of Amnesty and the ICRC. But worse, the UN has made racial ethnic and politica categorization of his 1012 corpses. As to mitigate or minimize the crimes committed by soldiers of Ouattara. UNBELIEVABLE! Fortunately, the reality is quite different, the truth speaks for itself today. Too many deaths and too many massacres committed by Ouattara FRCI on poor populations. This continues elsewhere. This has probably led the UN to adopt a new strategy: acknowledge both camps ( Fds pro Gbagbo and Ouattara FRCI militiamen ) abuses. Play the good referee. But this is not new, the UN had already said or done after the"phony"post-election investigation giving 500 dead. But the novelty of this strategy is the tendency of the UN to take the lead of things now, to move herself by visiting the victims and prisoners, make summary statements and accuse directly Alassane Ouattara. In reality, the UN is aware that she is confused and guilty of a serious matter that could lead her to shed on the 31 December at the next election of the Secretary General. And like the UN, Western countries are aware that the UN ship could shink wt them because of their mafia actions. The UN has decided to change tactics probably because of the existence of evidence against her. In particular, the use and upkeep the mercenary troops of war in its mission of maintaining peace (which are really war missions of interest and installation missions on behalf of presidents of Western countries like that been the case in IC). The UN did a volte-face to flush his yesterday accomplices and also do casting silencing witnesses and any evidence against her and its leaders. This "Thing" is really a danger to the developing countries and good for rich countries. But the UN is not eternal, Ban Ki-Moon, either. Yesterday was the result of a war that the League (League) was dissolved to make way for the UN. But the same practices that have lost the League continue in another form. Some powers diligentent conflict in poor countries for their interests against the interests of some other competing powers. The overhaul of the UN is more urgent and necessary than ever today in a responsible and equal discussion. Risk, as yesterday with the League, to witness the demise of the UN from a general war between the powers of interest, or by the revolt of the poor countries (their people) long tortured and exploited, by them with the help of the UN.
My Ma Patrie (ma.patrie @ ymail.com)
by: Ma Patrie
The UN in his recent statements tried to prouve his neutrality and arbitrage in the outcome of the macabre post-election crisis in Côte d'Ivoire as it is directly involved, even accused by some international human right groups. Indeed, the UN should respond to Amnesty International charges against him on his passivity and complicity in the massacres in Côte d'Ivoire. In which case, the UN must assume the crimes committed byOuattara rebels , these mercenaries and militias it has maintained, equipped and supported to overthrow President Gbagbo from power. In view of the events which occurred in Côte d'Ivoire, one can easily say that the UN had a mission other than peacekeeping and the protection of civilians. It was rather a mission of support and protection with 900 UN soldiers to Ouattara (Mr. Choi said once in Dakar and before the bombing: "The protection of Alassane Ouattara at the Hotel du Golf is our priority "). The UN also had a wartime mission. With the purchase of 2 war helicopters and Mi24 heavy weapons, the UN had bombed the camps and positions of the sovereign Ivorian regular army and to facilitate taking of the country b yOuattara FRCI . These bombing caused many deaths within the civilian population and thousands of damage. The UN had bought a lot of weapons. We remember the hundreds of containers loaded with weapons of war to the UN, seized in Douala by Cameroon authorities, then forwarded in the Ivory Coast. These weapons were used by the UN troops and mercenaries of Ouattara. The UN has fought openly with the French forces alongside Ouattara men (FRCI) and this through a media the world's medias to indicate that it would introduce the démocraitie in Ivory Coast. Was it his role? Today, the UN organizes training seminars against FRCI Ouattara on management and human behavior to the peaceful population. This proves that the UN knows it is dealing with wild and bloodthirsty forces(FRCI). Note that most of Alassane FRCI are illiterate. Fort of the foregoing, the UN can not be neutral nor referee. It can not be given credibility to his post-election surveys in Côte d'Ivoire. Because his responsibility is very involved in the massacres and atrocities in that country. The UN has been severely discredited. And the most glaring is its set of calculation on the number of victims in this crisis. Starting with 300 then 500 dead at first, she now speaks 1012 dead after criticism and revelations of Amnesty and the ICRC. But worse, the UN has made racial ethnic and politica categorization of his 1012 corpses. As to mitigate or minimize the crimes committed by soldiers of Ouattara. UNBELIEVABLE! Fortunately, the reality is quite different, the truth speaks for itself today. Too many deaths and too many massacres committed by Ouattara FRCI on poor populations. This continues elsewhere. This has probably led the UN to adopt a new strategy: acknowledge both camps ( Fds pro Gbagbo and Ouattara FRCI militiamen ) abuses. Play the good referee. But this is not new, the UN had already said or done after the"phony"post-election investigation giving 500 dead. But the novelty of this strategy is the tendency of the UN to take the lead of things now, to move herself by visiting the victims and prisoners, make summary statements and accuse directly Alassane Ouattara. In reality, the UN is aware that she is confused and guilty of a serious matter that could lead her to shed on the 31 December at the next election of the Secretary General. And like the UN, Western countries are aware that the UN ship could shink wt them because of their mafia actions. The UN has decided to change tactics probably because of the existence of evidence against her. In particular, the use and upkeep the mercenary troops of war in its mission of maintaining peace (which are really war missions of interest and installation missions on behalf of presidents of Western countries like that been the case in IC). The UN did a volte-face to flush his yesterday accomplices and also do casting silencing witnesses and any evidence against her and its leaders. This "Thing" is really a danger to the developing countries and good for rich countries. But the UN is not eternal, Ban Ki-Moon, either. Yesterday was the result of a war that the League (League) was dissolved to make way for the UN. But the same practices that have lost the League continue in another form. Some powers diligentent conflict in poor countries for their interests against the interests of some other competing powers. The overhaul of the UN is more urgent and necessary than ever today in a responsible and equal discussion. Risk, as yesterday with the League, to witness the demise of the UN from a general war between the powers of interest, or by the revolt of the poor countries (their people) long tortured and exploited, by them with the help of the UN.
My Ma Patrie (ma.patrie @ ymail.com)
by: Ma Patrie
Saturday 6 August 2011
The Truth belongs to those searching Permanently for it.
The Truth belongs to those searching Permanently for it. Socartes, 400 years Before Christ. ..Everyone has to watch this Video and know the truth about the western-war-assault against African people of Libya...
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