Will the widely publicized news of mercenaries in Libya bring reform?

Libya protests: 'foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against at demonstrators'

“...Omar added: "Tanks are being used in Benghazi, but there are already soldiers joining the demonstrators. They are on the side of the people." While low-paid Libyan army recruits are always likely to desert, the dictator's third son, Saadi Gaddafi, was said to be coordinating African mercenaries to act as shock troops against the protesters.

A Libyan journalist who is currently banned from writing about the trouble because of a news black-out imposed by Gaddafi said: "Some of these mercenary shock troops have been killed or captured, and some of them are said to on the equivalent of around 500 dollars a day.

"These killers are coming from countries like Chad. They're vicious killers. People are so terrified of them that they've been doing everything possible to get away..."

... Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "I condemn the violence in Libya, including reports of the use of heavy weapons fire and a unit of snipers against demonstrators. This is clearly unacceptable and horrifying."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8336467/Libya-protests-foreign-mercenaries-using-heavy-weapons-

against-at-demonstrators.html



LIBYA: African mercenaries imported by Kadafi to quash protests, Al Arabiya reports

Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Kadafi has flown in hundreds of mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa to quash protests threatening his 41-year-old regime, the Al Arabiya network reported Saturday, quoting witnesses to the arriving foreign recruits.

Protesters in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and an anti-Kadafi stronghold, captured some of the imported gunmen, the news agency said. The captured French-speaking mercenaries admitted to having been recruited by Kadafi's son, Khamis, to confront the unrest threatening to topple one of the region's longest-reigning regimes, Al Arabiya reported.

The agency said witnesses reported seeing four planes carrying mercenaries land in Benina International Airport near Benghazi. The British-based website jeel.libya.net reported earlier that several planes carrying foreign recruits in Libyan army uniforms landed at a military airport near Tripoli.

The crackdown on anti-Kadafi demonstrators has resulted in at least 84 deaths, the New York-based Human Rights Watch reported from sources in the region.
-- Carol J. Williams

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/02/libya-protests-2.html



Okay, so with the world forced to acknowledge the open murders and massacres inflicted by Khaddafi's mercenaries, is there any hope that renewed pressure to outlaw all mercenaries worldwide? Or would this just go the way of the land mines issue, with the biggest purveyor of same, the good ol' USA, ignoring everyone's wishes and not eliminating them?

Imagine a MIC cutoff from their professional hitmen? Would they then have to resort to clamoring for re-instituting the draft in the US to fulfill their militaristic wet dreams of conquest and world domination? After all, about half of all "troops," we have deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are these $1000/day paid thugs. No Blackwater, No XE, or whatever they changed their name to when the latest Erik Prince shenanigans were revealed. Wouldn't that give some hope we could believe in.

To see the American electorate have to vote on re-instituting the draft or else call off the foreign adventures.

Anyone else on board with this idea? Any other ideas? Would benefit humanity greatly but could it ever come about? Why not put pressure to at least start a discussion about this issue.


Just my dos centavos

robdogbucky

No response.

Oh, well, it's back to discussing Mika and the weather I guess.

See you on page 4 this afternoon.