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The Northerner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 07:40 PM
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'US picks wrong allies again, cannot accept defeat in Libya'
 
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The U.S., along with more than 30 other nations, has decided to recognize Libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country. The Libyan Contact Group, convening in Turkey, has also urged Colonel Gaddafi to give up power. Dr. Franklin Lamb - a director of an organisation called Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace - says it's just another dangerous case of the U.S. misjudging an ally.
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 04:11 AM
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1. k/r "The NATO bombing has INCREASED the popularity of Ghaddafi"....
Typical. Another quagmire and rat hole to flush money down. Thanks Mr. Obama for all your hope and change.

Declare victory and bring our troops home.
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 10:05 AM
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2. Wrong allies? Only if you believe the world operates as described by the mainstream media and
by government spin doctors er, I mean, press officers and spokespeople.



US Recognizes Al-Qaeda War Criminals As Libya's Official Government
Unbelievable, though not unexpected, departure from reality.

by Tony Cartalucci

Bangkok, Thailand July 15, 2011 - Associated Press reports that, "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration has decided to formally recognize Libya’s main opposition group as the country’s legitimate government. The move gives foes of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a major financial and credibility boost."

In an act of utter desperation as the brutal, though entirely ineffective Libyan rebels flounder in their NATO-backed offensives against Libya's ruling government in Tripoli, the US has now recognized the Libyan rebels as the country's "legitimate government" allowing the US to directly fund, arm, and support with US troops, the Al-Qaeda tied war criminals operating out of Benghazi. The recent farcical move indicates that France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppé has failed in his threats and posturing to get Libya's Qaddafi to stand down, and that the NATO-backed war of aggression is about to reach new heights of brutality most likely including the involvement of US, UK, and French troops on the ground.

Libyan Rebels are Al-Qaeda - On Record

Operating out of the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Darna, and Tobruk, Libyan rebels themselves have admitted that many of their members are drawn from Al Qaeda. The London Telegraph has reported that Libyan rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi had admitted many of his fighters had just returned from fighting US forces in Iraq. The Telegraph also reported that Hasidi himself had "earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan. He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008." A United States Army West Point report confirms indeed that fighters drawn from the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Darna, and Tobruk were second only to Saudi Arabia in contributing forces to fight US troops in Iraq.

This illustrates the absurdity of both the "War on Terror" and the current NATO-backed operations unfolding in Libya, where the same known terrorists are used both as an excuse for global intervention and continued foreign occupation while concurrently provided arms, air cover, legitimacy, and now direct funding while participating in global intervention. On full display for the world to see is how the global corporatocracy manipulates and exploits all sides of any given conflict for their own nefarious self-serving ends. One must wonder what races through the minds of US and UK pilots as they provide air support for the very men they strafed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/us-recognizes-al-qaeda-war-criminals-as.html
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