Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 20 (or 22*), Part 1

#Feb17 Youth organizers invite Gaddafi's collaborators to stand under his umbrella ella ella ella ella ella http://bit.ly/faa34E

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New video of Soldiers Executed for Refusing to Shoot Protesters in #Libya

1:07am: The US is increasing its financial aid to relief groups in Libya from $15m to $30m, say officials. The money will help those organisations to “meet the most urgent humanitarian needs both inside and outside Libya,” said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor.

http://feb17.info/general/live-libyan-uprest-gaddafi-libya-plays-a-vital-role-in-keeping-sub-saharan-africans-from-entering-europe-illegally/

12:30am: Most of the migrants are arriving on the small southern island of Lampedusa. Port authority spokesman Vittorio Alessandro told SkyTG24 that the journey could soon become even more dangerous. “We are expecting a worsening of conditions and this puts the lives of people who have set sail at risk,” he said.

12:26am:Mr Maroni, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League, has been among the Italian officials calling for EU help to handle the huge increase in the number of people entering Europe through Italy.

12:22am: Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said Europe is “being invaded” by migrants fleeing unrest in north Africa. “Around 8,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the past month – a lot more than the number who came over the whole of 2010,” he told reporters.

http://feb17.info/general/live-libyan-uprest-gaddafi-libya-plays-a-vital-role-in-keeping-sub-saharan-africans-from-entering-europe-illegally/

Video: Misratah Power Station shelled by tanks
Posted on March 7, 2011 by Admin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3Dp0YoWqw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/03/video-misratah-power-station-shelled-by-tanks/

Bradley Manning Now "Catatonic"; Obama ENOUGH!
Submitted by Ralph Lopez on Mon, 2011-03-07 21:49 Activism

As Obama's crime of the destruction of Bradley Manning continues to unfold before our very eyes, Manning friend David House now tells us that over 8 months in isolation with movement and sleep restrictions placed on him have been having their intended effect. House has told MSNBC that by the end of January Manning appeared "catatonic" and that he had "severe problems communicating," with it having taken House nearly 45 minutes on a recent visit to engage in any meaningful way (video below.) House said Manning's demeanor was as "if he had just woken up and didn't know what was going on around him." Manning was "utterly exhausted physically and mentally...it was difficult to have any kind of social engagement."

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In 2005, General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “It is absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. service member , if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to try to stop it.”

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Chase Mader writes in HuffPo that soon after deployment to Iraq, Manning:

"soon found himself helping the Iraqi authorities detain civilians for distributing “anti-Iraqi literature” -- which turned out to be an investigative report into financial corruption in their own government entitled “Where does the money go?” The penalty for this “crime” in Iraq was not a slap on the wrist. Imprisonment and torture, as well as systematic abuse of prisoners, are widespread in the new Iraq. From the military’s own Sigacts (Significant Actions) reports, we have a multitude of credible accounts of Iraqi police and soldiers shooting prisoners, beating them to death, pulling out fingernails or teeth, cutting off fingers, burning with acid, torturing with electric shocks or the use of suffocation, and various kinds of sexual abuse including sodomization with gun barrels and forcing prisoners to perform sexual acts on guards and each other...

Like any good soldier, Manning immediately took these concerns up the chain of command. And how did his superiors respond? His commanding officer told him to “shut up” and get back to rounding up more prisoners for the Iraqi Federal Police to treat however they cared to..."

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http://warisacrime.org/content/bradley-manning-now-catatonic-obama-enough

Shakespeare and kalashnikovs, Kennedy and rocket launchers. This is Libya

Monday 7 March 2011
10:09 pm

Lindsey Hilsum

VIDEO

He was a 21-year-old economics student, and he said he’d never handled a weapon before. He was standing at the side of the road leaning on a shoulder-launched rocket which, he said, had “a bit missing”. He said he wouldn’t go to the front until the bit arrived, but that didn’t make me worry about him any less.

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“As Shakespeare says, the question is: to be or not to be,” he replied.

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The quotations have universal power, and that’s why they’ve stuck in the minds of these young Libyans. Ideas of human rights and freedom are cited here alongside the belief that Allah is on their side, their fate lies in his hands, and to be martyred is glorious. But as we stand in the desert, looking at the rudimentary defences this rebel force is building, with ancient anti-aircraft guns and the occasional tank dug into sandbanks, listening to young men talking of their hopes for democracy and peace, I find myself thinking of other lines from history and poetry.

Of the young British, German and Italian men who fought here in the North African desert in 1942, in the punishing El Alamein campaign. And, a quarter century earlier, of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who chronicled the waste of young lives in the trenches of Flanders and the Somme. The pity of war, the pity war distils. Dolce et Decorum es.

http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/shakespeare-and-kalashnikovs-kennedy-and-rocket-launchers-this-is-libya/15403