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Video: Taji Mustafa’s message at Libya Conference in London

MARCH 29, 2011

As 35 delegates including Muslim countries come to London to dictate the future of another Muslim country, we say no to Gadaffi the murderer, no to western intervention. Yes to Muslim intervention.

Libyan rebels divided over what would replace Gadhafi; many, but not all, favour democracy

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“We want to get rid of that evil thief,” he said, meaning Gadhafi, “then unite the Arabs under the motto, There is no God but Allah” — the Muslim declaration of faith.

BENGHAZI, Libya — The hundreds of men who come daily to this town’s seized army base for lessons in shooting rifles, loading rocket launchers and firing artillery shells agree on at least two things: Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi must go and arms are the only way to get him out.

Beyond that, their visions of Libya should Gadhafi’s 42-year reign end differ widely. Some want democracy. Others want a share of Libya’s oil wealth. Still others, albeit a minority, see Libya’s liberation as the first step toward establishing a regional Islamic state. That’s bound to scare the international coalition bombing Gadhafi’s forces.

The United States has already reached out to the opposition’s political leadership. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with members of the Interim National Council on Tuesday in London.

The former U.S. Ambassador to Tripoli, Chris Stevens, is due to visit Benghazi soon, and President Barack Obama has not ruled out the possibility of arming rebel forces.

The interim council — largely stocked with foreign-educated, Westernized Libyans — insists it seeks a liberal democracy based on a constitution and with regular elections.

But interviews with over a dozen men receiving weapons training at a former Benghazi military camp provide a window into the diverse motivations pulling rebel ground troops into battle.

A few hundred show up daily at this base on the city’s western edge, which rebels seized at the start of the uprising in mid-February and promptly renamed “The Martyrs’ Brigade.”

Training is run by a group of retired army officers, most in their 50s, who seek to provide bakers, bureaucrats, university students and taxi drivers with basic weapons know-how.

On a recent day, a toothless soldier showed one group how to aim a Kalashnikov, while another helped a father-son team assemble the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun.

All detailed reasons to hate Gadhafi’s regime.

Ashraf Mohammed, a government bureaucrat, said he’d seen too many people abused by Gadhafi’s rule. His brother was detained for seven months for being seen with the wrong people, he said. A neighbour spent seven years in prison, and a colleague did 17 before being released with no explanation, he said.

“All the accusations were political,” said Mohammed, 31. “Any accusation that you are against the regime and it’s over.”

Next he explained which buttons to push to fire a rocket launcher in what he considers a fight for freedom.

“The goal is democracy, a constitution and transfer of power,” he said. “Not just one ruling family.”

University student Abdel-Salam Rigayi, 23, took advantage of a vacation — imposed by the fighting — to pursue a different dream.

“We want a society based on the Qur’an,” he said, speaking in the formal Arabic tones of a mosque preacher.

“Freedom of religion, we don’t want it,” he said. “We want the freedom to practice our religion, but we don’t want freedom for Jews and Christians and to have naked women and alcohol.”

His friend, Mahdi Abu Bakir, 35, wore a bushy beard and a long white robe.

“We want to get rid of that evil thief,” he said, meaning Gadhafi, “then unite the Arabs under the motto, There is no God but Allah” — the Muslim declaration of faith.

The camp’s trainers insisted the program was going well, though they acknowledge the inferiority of their arms — mostly munitions seized from long-neglected army bases or retreating regime forces.

“We lack weapons, while Gadhafi’s troops have modern, strong weapons,” said Fawzi Abdullah Moussa, who retired from the Libyan army in 1998 after a 30-year career. “But we have determination and belief to push us forward.”

The camp reflects the disorganization among rebel forces. Anyone who enters gets training without any physical, medical or ideological screening. No one checks their identities, and few names are recorded.

Trainers said they sent fighters to the front, but all gave different answers on when the last group left and how large it was. No one could explain how they communicate with the front in a facility with no electricity and no radios. They even disagreed on whether an “operations room” exists to co-ordinate the fight.

Some worry extremists will exploit the chaos.

NATO’s top commander, U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, told Congress Tuesday that officials had seen “flickers” of possible al-Qaida and Hezbollah involvement with rebel forces. But he said there was no evidence of significant numbers within the opposition leadership.

Spokesman Mustafa Gheriani of the opposition council in Benghazi said that any extremists among the fighters are exceptions and that ensuring democracy is the only way to combat them.

“Once you have a democracy and a constitution, there is nothing for the West to fear,” he said. “Democracy generally puts down all of these extremist elements. Our best bet is a democracy.”

But the council has no control over who is picking up guns to join the fight.

While some at the training camp talked of the importance of Arab unity or the role of Islam in their society, none mentioned al-Qaida or any other terror or militant group. Most focused merely on hatred of Gadhafi.

On an oil-stained blanket, Karim Mahmoud, 48, and his 15-year old son struggled to assemble an anti-aircraft gun. Another son, 11, watched closely.

Mahmoud, a baker, said Gadhafi’s brutality pushed him — despite diabetes, high blood pressure and heart troubles — to seek arms with his sons.

“We lived under oppression for a long time, but we put up with it,” he said. “But when the regime killed our friends and brothers, we had to join the defence. The regime forced us to fight against it.”

A handful of others obviously under 18 were scattered among the hundreds of trainees. One trainer even pointed out his 10-year-old son sitting among a group being taught to use a rifle.

Mahmoud dismissed concerns that his sons were too young to fight.

“I’m ready to send them tomorrow to defend the nation,” he said. “If they die, it will be in the path of God and I’ll see them in heaven.”

His son, Abdel-Rahman, 15, didn’t look like a fighter in a black baseball cap and a fake leather jacket, with a downy moustache just emerging on his lip. He claimed otherwise.

“I hope to go and die a martyr,” he said. “I’m not too young.”

The Canadian Press

London Libya Conference: Another Colonial Trick


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As the 44 delegates arrived at the hastily arranged London Libya conference, the very people they were meant to be helping were beating a hasty retreat out of areas captured only a day earlier. The conference largely a façade to showcase the apparent global support for the Libyan operation did very little to effect any real change in the status quo. There wasn’t even an agreement among all the parties on how to progress the implementation of the UN resolutions passed earlier this month.

Scared from the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan both physically and in terms of acquiring a reputation as global war mongers, Britain and America are trying their level best to make the attack on Libya look like a global effort.

As one Foreign Office Official put it “We had bitter recent experience of military action taken on a unilateral basis. We are trying to achieve the opposite.” The bitter experience was a military failure and an international public relations disaster, so it makes sense for the main players Britain, France and America to give the impression it’s the whole world bombing Libya not just them.

There was much talk of UN resolutions 1970 and 1973, which give the ‘coalition’ the green light to implement a ‘No-fly zone’ over Libya by any means necessary. However, UN resolutions are not the important issue as they come and go like the seasons. Resolutions 1970 and 1973 are just pretexts for the attack on Libya.

The importance of this summit and the involvement of the Arab League in reality is to give the message that this is not a neo-colonial war effort in order to control the resources and politics of yet another Muslim country. This is simply a risk the West cannot take, not with the Muslim ummah in the mood of defiance at the moment.

Although the main reason the world has been sold for protecting cities like Benghazi is for humanitarian reasons the actions of the “coalition” betray them. Just ten days into the operation and with Hilary Clinton giving herself a self-congratulatory pat on the back for such a speedy deployment of air power, the issue of Libya’s oil is already being discussed. The tiny country of Qatar having already agreed to help bomb Libya has now agreed to aid the sale of ‘rebel’ held oil.

Without the aid of corrupt dictators who sit in the Arab League the West would find it very difficult to sell this operation to the Muslim masses. Having been politically and militarily inept for decades the remaining dictators of the Middle East have been invited to sit around the table and feast on Muslim blood and resources. The last time they had such courage was in the coalition which bombed Iraq in the first Gulf War, it seems they can only act when it is to bomb their own.

The removal of Gaddafi is imperative, no one can deny that. However it should not be under the terms of some Western backed military action. Leaders and ministers of countries who have nothing to do with Libya sitting miles away have no right to go and bomb Muslim lands. The military actions shouldn’t be coming from NATO but from the Muslims countries which border Libya and even those that don’t.

The West acts only based on benefit and ‘national interests’ that’s why they ignored Gaddafi’s killing for 42 years. The London Libya conference was just a propaganda stunt to try and garner international support for what is a colonial war effort.

Allah سبحانه وتعالى warns against allying with those that don’t follow your deen:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا بِطَانَةً مِنْ دُونِكُمْ لَا يَأْلُونَكُمْ خَبَالًا وَدُّوا مَا عَنِتُّمْ قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ ۚ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الْآيَاتِ ۖ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

“O you who believe! Take not as your Bitaanah [advisors, allies, close friends] those outside your deen since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred as already appeared from their mouths but what their hearts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the signs if you have intelligence” (al-Imran, 3:118)

source : http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/analysis/africa/11565-london-libya-conference-another-colonial-trick


‘US drops uranium bombs on Libya'


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US B-2 bomber

The Stop the War Coalition says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).

The report recently published on the Coalition’s website said that in the first 24 hours of the war on Libya, dozens of bombs and cruise missiles were launched by US, British, and French forces — all with depleted uranium warheads.

US B-2 aircraft dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs on key Libyan cities, it added.

DU munitions are controversial because they raise long-term health concerns like kidney damage, cancer, skin disorders and genetic defects.

“[Depleted uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way… I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people,” said Marion Falk, chemical physicist (retd.), Lawrence Livermore Lab in California.

The report comes as the Western forces claim the operation in Libya is aimed at protecting civilians.

Director of the US military’s Joint Staff Bill Gortney has told reporters at a Pentagon briefing that he is not aware of any use of depleted uranium munitions in Libya.

Libya says at least 114 people — many of them civilians — have been killed in US-led airstrikes in the country.

“We are losing many lives, military and civilians,” Libyan government Spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli.

Dozens of civilians have been killed in Libya since US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the North African country.

Libyan troops have also killed thousands of civilians since a revolution started against Colonel Gaddafi in mid-February.

JR/HGH/MMN

source : http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171881.html


Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west


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Libya's European ties … a man holds a British and a French national flag in Benghazi. Photograph: Manu Brabo/EPA

The US-Nato intervention in Libya, with United Nations security council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one dictator in particular and by so doing to bring the Arab rebellions to an end by asserting western control, confiscating their impetus and spontaneity and trying to restore the status quo ante.

It is absurd to think that the reasons for bombing Tripoli or for the turkey shoot outside Benghazi are designed to protect civilians. This particular argument is designed to win support from the citizens of Euro-America and part of the Arab world. “Look at us,” say Obama/Clinton and the EU satraps, “we’re doing good. We’re on the side of the people.” The sheer cynicism is breathtaking. We’re expected to believe that the leaders with bloody hands in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are defending the people in Libya. The debased British and French media are capable of swallowing anything, but the fact that decent liberals still fall for this rubbish is depressing. Civil society is easily moved by some images and Gaddafi’s brutality in sending his air force to bomb his people was the pretext that Washington utilised to bomb another Arab capital. Meanwhile, Obama’s allies in the Arab world were hard at work promoting democracy.

The Saudis entered Bahrain where the population is being tyrannised and large-scale arrests are taking place. Not much of this is being reported on al-Jazeera. I wonder why? The station seems to have been curbed somewhat and brought into line with the politics of its funders.

All this with active US support. The despot in Yemen, loathed by a majority of his people continues to kill them every day. Not even an arms embargo, let alone a “no-fly zone” has been imposed on him. Libya is yet another case of selective vigilantism by the US and its attack dogs in the west.

They can rely on the French as well. Sarkozy was desperate to do something. Unable to save his friend Ben Ali in Tunisia, he’s decided to help get rid of Gaddafi. The British always oblige and in this case, having shored up the Libyan regime for the last two decades, they’re making sure they’re on the right side so as not to miss out on the division of the spoils. What might they get?

The divisions on this entire operation within the American politico-military elite have meant there is no clear goal. Obama and his European satraps talk of regime change. The generals resist and say that isn’t part of their picture. The US state department is busy preparing a new government composed of English-speaking Libyan collaborators. We will now never know how long Gaddafi’s crumbling and weakened army would have held together in the face of strong opposition. The reason he lost support within his armed forces was precisely because he ordered them to shoot their own people. Now he speaks of imperialism’s desire to topple him and take the oil and even many who despise him can see that it’s true. A new Karzai is on the way.

The frontiers of the squalid protectorate that the west is going to create are being decided in Washington. Even those Libyans who, out of desperation, are backing Nato’s bomber jets, might – like their Iraqi equivalents – regret their choice.

All this might trigger a third phase at some stage: a growing nationalist anger that spills over into Saudi Arabia and here, have no doubt, Washington will do everything necessary to keep the Saudi royal family in power. Lose Saudi Arabia and they will lose the Gulf states. The assault on Libya, greatly helped by Gaddafi’s imbecility on every front, was designed to wrest the initiative back from the streets by appearing as the defenders of civil rights. The Bahrainis, Egyptians, Tunisians, Saudi Arabians, Yemenis will not be convinced, and even in Euro-America more are opposed to this latest adventure than support it. The struggles are by no means over.

Obama talks of a merciless Gaddafi, but the west’s own mercy never drops like gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It only blesses the power that dispenses, the mightiest of the mightiest.

source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/29/libya-west-tripoli-arab-world-gaddafi


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