Rebels killed Libya's Younes -rebel minister

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

BENGHAZI, July 29 (Reuters) - Rebel fighters who were sent to bring Libyan rebel military chief Abdel Fattah Younes to Benghazi for questioning killed him and dumped his body outside the city, rebel minister Ali Tarhouni said on Friday.

Tarhouni said a militia leader who was asked to fetch Younes from the frontline near the oil town of Brega had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates had carried out the killing. The men who fired the shots remained at large.

"It was not him. His lieutenants did it," Tarhouni told reporters in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFLDE76S1IS20110729

[EFerrari]

1. Oops.

[Wilms]

2. Well, EF, one must figure war is a loose plan.

However staged and contrived, things rarely go as planned. You have to be a bit flexible and expect technical difficulties.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

3. I was trying to remember a single name of a Contra general.

I got nothin'. :)

[Wilms]

4. They're all listed on Oliver North's LinkedIn page.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

6. LOL

[Poll_Blind]

8. (spews coffee all over monitor)

:rofl:

PB

[Riftaxe]

5. How couldyou forget commander zero

Pastora's rather unique moniker?

[EFerrari]

7. I don't think I ever knew that one.

:)

[gratuitous]

9. The rebels are apt pupils of American foreign policy

It's not clear if Younes was armed or not, but shooting a man and dumping the body is called "justice" in our country. This is certainly a group we want to get as closely affiliated with as soon as we can. Our kinda guys!

[Igel]

10. Gee. There's a suprise.

After all, it was only clear from the beginning that the rebels had a motive *and* the information to be sure of having opportunity and means.

Qaddhafi supporters had motive, sure enough, and there are enough loose guns in the area that means isn't at issue; but it was far from clear that they'd had the knowledge necessary to have the opportunity.

Meanwhile Tarhouni is still playing politics, demonstrating his omniscience as narrator to declare a man he wants as an ally innocent and shifting the blame to the man's reports.

[daleo]

11. One less guy to cut in on the loot.

There's only so much to go around.

[bvar22]

12. Those silly "rebels".

You know,
they are only barbers and merchants and students fighting for their freedoms!
The CIA only instigated them a teeny, little bit.

”Gaddafi is the perfect villain for this Anglo-French-American farce unworthy of French playwright Georges Feydeau. For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

Disaster capitalism at its Finest!!!

Obama can find lawyers to give him the BIG A-OK to run a NEW WAR without Congressional Approval
using THIS old argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8

...but finding a lawyer to OK using the 14th Amendment to avoid a catastrophic default?
No, because "That would be wrong."

:rofl:

...laughing, because the Cosmic Joke could not be more apparent.

[dipsydoodle]

13. Rebel feud puts UK's Libya policy in jeopardy

The credibility of the British-backed rebel forces in Libya has been thrown into doubt after the shock assassination of a top military commander led to claims that the movement is enmeshed in a bloody internal feud.

Increasing evidence has begun to emerge that the savage killings of General Abdel Fatah Younes and two other senior officers – who were shot and whose bodies were burnt – may have been carried out by their own side.

The news of the deaths led to outbreaks of violence in the opposition capital, Benghazi, yesterday, with troops loyal to the General and members of the large and powerful tribe to which he belonged, the Obeidis, vowing retribution.

The killings came at a difficult time for David Cameron's government, which just a day earlier had formally recognised the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) as the representatives of the Libyan state and ordered diplomats of the Tripoli regime to leave the UK. In a speech offering unreserved praise, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, had praised the rebels' "increasing legitimacy, competence and success." Major Younes is believed to have been under arrest on the orders of the chairman of the TNC, Mustafa Abdul Jalil – a former justice minister under Col Gaddafi – at the time of his death on Thursday evening. Yesterday, as the circumstances surrounding the killing remained hazy, Alistair Burt, a Foreign Office Minister, spoke to Mr Jalil.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rebel-feud-puts-uks-libya-policy-in-jeopardy-2328626.html

[dipsydoodle]

17. self delete - posted in wrong place

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[bongbong]

14. Ghaddafi

Ghaddafi is giving too much of that sweet oil money to the common Libyan people. That is the biggest crime that you can make against TPTB.

"What is our oil doing under their sand???" - TPTB

[Fool Count]

15. $170 billion the rebels suddenly got hold of are way too much

money for this small and disparate group to digest without much internal strife.
There will be many more killings among the ranks.

[PurityOfEssence]

16. So where are all of our chirpy and accusatory Interventionists here to comment on this?

This is seriously the most important story I've seen in a long time to get virtually no response at all.

With a flimsy lie that he was killed by Qaddafi Loyalists after having been summoned by the Islamists to a meeting/interrogation, the truth leaked out almost immediately.

Still, with more than one thread in this forum and more than one in GD each getting precious few responses, it's most alarming. Of course, the pro-war Interventionists who take such pains to tar everyone else as brutes and Qaddafi lovers make nary a peep.

Part of my whole disgust with this war from the very beginning is the anesthetizing effect of casual, low-cost and low-involvement wars: it makes them much easier to sneak past the American people and much easier for us to get entangled in them. This WAR doesn't even rate a blip on most people's radar, and the media doesn't seem to consider it worthy of much mention at all.

[dipsydoodle]

18. Libya taunts UK over rebel leader death

Libya's government has taunted the UK over the death of rebel military commander General Abdel Fattah Younes.

It has been claimed the former Libyan government minister was shot by an Islamist militia linked to the rebels.

A Libyan government spokesman said the incident showed the UK government had made a mistake by recognising the rebel council as the sole authority in Libya.

He said it was "a nice slap to the face of the British" that the rebels were unable to protect their army chief.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14351722

[JackRiddler]

19. Surely we can work al-Qaeda into this? Agents of Belarus?