End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh in?

Regarding NATO’ bombing of the TV station on the night of 30 June 2011 (NATO usually attacks in the middle of the night, like cowards)  whicj killed three people and wounded fifteen others, on 3 Aug 2011 the International Federation of Journalists (based in Brussels) said the attack violated a UN Security Council resolution passed in December 2006 that explicitly condemned such attacks against journalists and media.

Beth Costa (Secretary General of the journalists group) said, “The use of “violence to stifle dissident media spells catastrophe for press freedom. When one side destroys a media organization because they regard its message as propaganda, then all media are at risk. International law clearly says that unarmed journalists cannot be treated as combatants, irrespective of their political affiliations.”

Ms. Costa likened the Libyan air strike to NATO’s 1999 bombing of Serbian TV in Belgrade, in which NATO murdered 16 people. At the time, NATO said the murders were justified because the station was a “propaganda mouthpiece” for the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Of the Tripoli bombing, NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said NATO’s murder of civilians was justified because Qaddafi used Libyan TV to threaten civilians. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/03/501364/main20087859.shtml?tag=stack

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In the article above, Franklin Lamb writes, “One Qaddafi supporter, who just arrived here in Tripoli, claims he spent the past two months on the ground in Benghazi ‘undercover’ as a liaison between the terrorists and NATO. This week at a Tripoli hotel he told his audience many details of NATO’s frustration with the deterioration, corruption, and incompetence of their ‘team’ in the east. He said the CIA knows that “Al Qaeda will eat Mahmoud Jibril and the entire NTC leadership for Iftar in August.” [Iftar is the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan.] “They are just waiting for the right opportunity to take control from the NTC.”

I don’t know if this guy was really in Benghazi, but his assessment is correct. NATO imposed the NTC, some of whose members aren’t even Libya (they are Tunisian or Egyptian). Many have fled to Tobruk. They expect NATO to install them as the new puppet government should Tripoli fall. What a joke. I have said all along that the terrorists hate the NTC almost as much as they hate Qaddafi. There is no way the terrorist Isamists would submit to an NTC puppet government. Nor will the leaders of Libya’s 2,000 tribes submit to the new NATO order. The assassination of Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes has enraged Younes’ Obeidis tribe (the largest in Libya, with nearly a million members). The NTC has no answers for them.

There is reason to suspect that the assassination was arranged by Khalifa Heftir, a former Qaddafi colonel who became a CIA asset, and lived two miles from CIA headquarters for 20 years until NATO began its attack. The CIA sent Hefter back to Libya, and evidently there was an angry behind-the-scenes struggle between him and Abdul Fattah Younes over who the NTC would officially designate as its chief military leader. Younes won the battle, and Qaddafi himself called Hefter’s cellular phone to gloat. Hefter’s son says he has no idea how Qaddafi got Hefter’s cell phone number. Shortly afterward, Abdul Fattah Younes was assassinated, along with two of his officers. Their throatsd were slit, and their bulet-ridden bodies were burned and left on the side of the road. Clearly someone was sending a message to the NTC that they don’t run anything. (Benghazi has about 40 rogue militias who answer to no one but themseves.) 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/07/killing-abdul-fattah-younes.html

Aid workers and journalists in Benghazi now report that the security situation there has deteriorated significantly since Younes’ killing, and many non-governmental organizations have ordered their staff to remain indoors, with the lights off.

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Demoralization isn’t limited to the terrorists in Benghazi. Those in the western mountains also hate the NTC. “They are indecisive and divided,” said one. “It takes them a long time to do simple things.”

Terrorists have surrounded the strategic town of Tiji, a Qaddafi stronghold in the plains below the western mountains, but they are short on ammunition, weapons and military training. They have lived on what they stole from towns and villages they torched and ransacked, but now everything had been picked clean. Earlier, militia leaders had appeared to overcome factionalism and ethnic differences when they captured and several towns and villages, but those problems are re-emerging, preventing the terrorists from seizing Tiji.

The terrorists, now demoralized, sit idle in the cruel heat wondering when their leaders will order the charge to Tiji down a single paved road with no cover. Ramadan fasting has made them more irritable. One of them named Omar, a Libyan living in Europe who returned to fight, is so fed up that he is close to quitting.

“This is a joke. It feels like every man for himself. The military leaders are arguing among themselves. When a commander from one village or town wants weapons from another, he doesn't always get it, because of rivalries and divisions. This is how things are in Libya.”

One terrorist, Izzidine Shalbak, said, “The men are getting so anxious they are talking about just mobilizing on their own. They are sick and tired of this.”

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/483131

Many Westerners who have worked in Libya worry about what will happen if Tripoli falls, leaving countless militias in charge, most of which hate each other. A Western aid worker who recently spent time in Libya said that on a visit to the rebel-held city of Misrata, the rebels reported little affinity for the NTC in Benghazi. “There was a certain degree of frustration about the division of power. My conclusion on that was that the NTC was really Benghazi-ocused. That's where decisions were made, and people outside Benghazi felt really left out.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/libya-military-effort-political-process_n_918250.html

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One of the strategic aims of the NATO attack is to kick Russia and China out of Africa, so the Western plutocracy can steal all of the continent’s resources. China has a huge and growing presence in Africa. Shortly before the NATO started bombing, Qaddafi signed a $4 billion arms contract with Russia, and gave Tatneft concessions to develop several oil blocks in Ghadames and the Sirte basin. Russia also had production sharing agreements with Libya's National Oil Cooperation. Gazprom had exploration contracts in Libya. Russian Railways planned to build a multi-billion dollar high-speed railroad linking cities along Libya's Mediterranean coast. The West could not allow this.

http://www.aei.org/article/103949

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Some 30 nations have recognized the NTC as Libya’s “legitimate” government – even though everyone in Libya, including the terrorists, hate the NTC. (Or is it the “TNC”? The media is so fouled up in its lies that it can’t even decide on the name of NATO’s puppets.) 

On 1 Aug 2011 France announced it would place $259 million in unfrozen Libyan assets at the disposal of the NTC. This is probably a loan designed to keep the billions in Libyan assets that France stole. German banks are already playing this game. To legitimize the theft of $10 billion, you give a loan of a mere $10 million (one-thousandth of the stolen loot), and let the interest eat up the $10 billion. Very simple. 

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Rebels+killed+Gadhafi+camp+says+NATO+stop/5193175/story.html

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One of Qaddafi’s sons, Saif al Islam, is driving a edge between the Islamist terrorists and the NTC. He has donned a beard, now wears traditional dress, and carries prayer beads. He says it’s fine with him if Libya becomes an Islamist state.

It’s a ruse, of course. If Libya becomes an Islamist state, then Libyan women would become second-class citizens. Saif al Islam and his father (Qaddafi) have never agreed with this. 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/03/qaddafis-son-says-regime-is-forging-alliance-with-radical-islamists/#ixzz1U4pw1AdE

Saif al Islam’s latest tactic is causing some people to claim that he supports terrorism. That’s cute. Qaddafi calls the “rebels” terrorists and members of Al Qaeda (which they are). The West calls them “pro-democracy insurgents.” When Saif al Islam agrees to go Islamist like the rebels, he is branded as a terrorist. That’s how utterly screwed up NATO’s campaign is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/04/gaddafi-son-allegiance-saif-islam

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Evidently a stray grad rocket from the loyalists flew out to sea and harmlessly struck the water about two kilometers from the Italian frigate Bersagliere, which was about 19 kilometers off the Libyan city of Zlitan. To justify NATO’s ever-increasing bombing of civilians, the Western media calls the crude rocket a “missile.”

NATO said in a statement that, “NATO ships go in harm's way to seek those military targets that continue to threaten the people of Libya.”

Yes – incredibly – NATO has not modified any of it lies. NATO bombs civilians to save them, delivering “humanitarian” gifts one missile at a time. No matter how many civilians NATO murders, NATO says it is done to “protect civilians. 

By the way, on 12 June, people in Malta heard a huge explosion at sea, but NATO and the Maltese government refuse to explain what it was. I like to think there as an accidental detonation of munitions that took several dozen NATO sailors with it.

http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=6570

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The NATO attack is so messed up that the Western media cannot maintain a consistent propaganda program. CNN ran a sad story of one of NATO’s countless civilian victims.

At 6:30 am on the morning of 4 Aug 2011, NATO hit a civilian house on the outskirts of the coastal city of Zlitan (160 miles east of Tripoli), blowing apart a three-year-old child. a five-year-old child, and their mother as they lay in their beds. A third child, aged eight, is in critical condition. 

The house was in a residential neighborhood ten miles from the front line in the quiet suburb of Kaim. The victims were ordinary people who had feasted just hours before to celebrate Ramadan.

One NATO spokesman, too cowardly to give his name, told CNN: “The target was a command and control facility held by government forces.”

Another NATO spokesman, also too cowardly to give his name, “We have had no reason to believe that there were any civilian casualties.”

The CNN story is harrowing. Among average people in Libya, their extreme hatred of NATO grows with every bomb dropped.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/04/libya.family.killed/

Mohammad Ali Berber is a cousin of the three civilians that NATO murdered in Zlitan on 4 August. “Those that are fighting with NATO are traitors to their country. We should volunteer to go to the front line and finish it. We will never forgive..”

Another man saw NATO helicopter gun-ships attacking areas where there were no soldiers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8682499/Nato-accused-of-killing-family-in-botched-bombing-raid.html

Thus we see that the plutocracy is as stupid as it is murderous. NATO blundered totally in assuming that a few bombs would cause Tripoli to fall, so the West could install a puppet government and begin stealing all of Libya’s resources.

Our governments are run by total idiots.