GRAFFITI IN TRIPOLI: ‘THANK NATO USA FRANCE ENGLAND’

GRAFFITI IN TRIPOLI: ‘THANK NATO USA FRANCE ENGLAND’ | Accompanying an article on international concerns surrounding former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s death, the New York Times today placed this photograph of a Libyan at Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, the site of Qaddafi’s main palace:



http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/22/350870/graffiti-in-tripoli-thank-nato-usa-france-england/

it has become an omlette

<< so much egg on face there it has become an omlette >>

:rofl:

That. Is. Too Funny. And so true.

Did you notice the sound of silence from the heretofore "Impeach Him!" peanut gallery?

Has Kucinich sent out a press release yet? Maybe he's too busy worrying about his friend, Syria's "highly loved" Assad?

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I am I am said Sam I am I am I am green eggs on face and ham!

<< Just googled for any statement on Kucinich

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I am I am said Sam I am I am I am green eggs on face and ham! >>


You. Are. Cracking Me Up!!! That's St. Dennis in a nutshell. :rofl:

And, you're not there yet.

And I suppose images of the racist graffiti that seems to follow the rebels everywhere, praising their fighters for "purging slaves and black skin" would be unwelcome in this article.

GOPers are two faced, shitheads. I'm sure Foxnews is all over this, NOT. Like OBL, they would love to tuck that fact into the memory hole. Anything to help out the GOP. I hope no one here said that kinda crap. Our standard is GWB for impeachable offenses...which pretty much means you cannot start a land war in Asia. So far Obama has a much better record then Cheney and his cronies at the CIA ever could have dreamed of. They were to busy listening to Rush and Glenn for guidance.

In Egypt, there were signs thanking him (as well as Cameron and Sarkozy) as in Libya.

At this point, all you have to do is look at the folks thanking him and those who are determined to give him no credit whatsoever. It's not hard at all to decide which group you'd rather stand with.

(Susan Rice.)

It made heads explode here (particularly because people were hand wringing hoping for a violent and protracted battle for Tripoli).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/libyans-thank-obama-poster_n_933396.html

photos, statistics, unreliable

Who cares what the people of Libya think!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

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Kick, Rec.

and realize what is good and bad and shades of gray. You might want to try that sometime.

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Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia.

I mean I have read it here that none in Libya likes NATO at this point, or the US...

So do fes up... WHO? And you forgot the Flag kids.

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Pinko murican hating lefties.... :sarcasm:

Or are they fascist this week? So hard to keep up

:hi:

To them it's not a legit war unless their chronies make billions of dollars at taxpayers expenxe.

- only graffiti in English and the texture looks like it was done with a giant crayon. Doesn't have the feathered edges of most spray painted graffiti. Appearance is very similar to what you get when using the basic photo-shop tool.

and we have seen plenty of English signs throughout the Arab Spring... you know unlike us, they are not monolingual.

Here is one from Egypt



And this one is in French from Tunis

Here is video of the writing:
http://www.natochannel.tv/?uri=channels/381662/1485538

Pictures from the video:



Pictures released from NATO that can only be seen by plane:

http://libyanstreetart.blogspot.com/

You wouldn't agree with the sentiment because you didn't undergo a civil war where collective punishment laws meant that your entire city was to be punished for the acts of those who were brave enough to protest against those laws.

n/t

the sarcasm smiley.

The fact that it's a single photo showing some random graffiti.

Libya's spectacular revolution has been disgraced by racism

"This is a bad time to be a black man in Libya," reported Alex Thomson on Channel 4 News on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kim Sengupta reported for the Independent on the 30 bodies lying decomposing in Tripoli. The majority of them, allegedly mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi, were black. They had been killed at a makeshift hospital, some on stretchers, some in an ambulance. "Libyan people don't like people with dark skins," a militiaman explained in reference to the arrests of black men.

The basis of this is rumours, disseminated early in the rebellion, of African mercenaries being unleashed on the opposition. Amnesty International's Donatella Rivera was among researchers who examined this allegation and found no evidence for it. Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch similarly had not "identified one mercenary" among the scores of men being arrested and falsely labelled by journalists as such.

Lurking behind this is racism. Libya is an African nation – however, the term "Africans" is used in Libya to reference the country's black minority. The Amnesty International researcher Diana Eltahawy says that the rebels taking control of Libya have tapped into "existing xenophobia". The New York Times refers to "racist overtones", but sometimes the racism is explicit. A rebel slogan painted in Misrata during the fighting salutes "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin". A consequence of this racism has been mass arrests of black men, and gruesome killings – just some of the various atrocities that human rights organisations blame rebels for. The racialisation of this conflict does not end with hatred of "Africans". Graffiti by rebels frequently depicted Gaddafi as a demonic Jew.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/30/libya-spectacular-revolution-disgraced-racism

A lack of documentary evidence for the existence of african mercenaries in Libya does not disprove their existence.

Most reporters on the round accept that Gaddafi flew in large numbers of black mercenaries. The problem seems to be that black immigrants are in some cases being treated as if they too were mercenaries.

A quick google of recent news stories from reporters on the ground suggests that to pretend there were no black mercenaries is naive:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14693343

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8349414/African-mercenaries-in-Libya-nervously-await-their-fate.html

It is also unofrtunate that the writer of this article has chosen to treat other posters with such sarcasm. The comment posted by Mcollins is perfectly valid, and nowhere does he suggest that black africans are themselves somehow responsible for the targeting of black people in Libya.

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