British war graves in Libya desecrated by Islamist militants

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian

Video footage has been released showing graves in a British military cemetery in Libya being destroyed by what appears to be an Islamist militia.

The video, shot by the militia themselves, shows more than 30 armed men kicking down the gravestones of British servicemen while comrades use sledgehammers to break the cenotaph. "Break the cross of the dogs!" one man can be heard shouting as another soldier perches on a ladder to smash the cenotaph cross with a mallet.

The cemetery, near the eastern city of Benghazi, hold the remains of more than 100 British and Commonwealth servicemen who fought for Montgomery's Eighth Army in the second world war.

Its desecration has caused shockwaves in both Libya and in Britain, with MP Daniel Kawczynski, chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for Libya, labelling the militia "desecrators".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/04/libya-war-graves-desecrated?newsfeed=true

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Similar links at the Telegraph : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9121706/Libyan-rebels-desecrate-graves-of-British-war-heroes.html

and Sky News http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16181894

This has broken overnight here in the UK.

[secondvariety]

1. I'm looking forward

to the day that a substitute for oil is invented that makes the Middle East irrelevant (again).

[Bo]

4. Thank You....

How I wish that day was yesterday

[dipsydoodle]

2. Apology after British war graves attacked in Benghazi

Libyan authorities have apologised after video footage emerged showing graves of British servicemen being attacked by armed men in Benghazi.
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The National Transitional Council (NTC) has pledged to catch those responsible.
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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse, in Tripoli, says the attackers referred to "Christian dogs" and a Jewish memorial was also targeted.
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It is believed the attack could have been carried out in retaliation for the burning of the Koran by US soldiers at a military base in Afghanistan last month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17244211

[DLC_equals_GOP]

3. So this will be used as yet another excuse

Too kill how many more non-whites?

[humblebum]

5. How does this have anything to do with race? It doesn't. nt

[DLC_equals_GOP]

6. BS Race and Religion have everything to do with it

When was the last time this country killed white christians in a war?

[humblebum]

8. You are making this a racial issue, which it is not. Totally, religious and political.

Far from all Christians are white and all Muslims dark-skinned. It appears that nations were quite wrong for helping to overthrow Qaddafi.

[ellisonz]

9. This poster is PPR.

Also, this story is disgraceful and I am glad to see the Libyan authorities taking this seriously.

[EX500rider]

12. Don't you mean:

Won't the Koran burning be used as a excuse to "kill more whites"?

[Odin2005]

10. Ugh!

[Boudica the Lyoness]

11. Horrid thing to do.

"IF I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, 5
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home".

[mainer]

13. Graves rested undisturbed for decades under Ghadafi.

Interesting what the west has wrought.