UN silent despite no grounds for NATO war on Libya

[Prometheus Bound]

UN silent despite no grounds for NATO war on Libya

By Frances Thomas
October 9, 2011

The situation in Sirte is dire. Six weeks under siege after months of aerial attacks. Children and old people dead of hunger and thirst. Water supply hit. Hospitals without medical supplies to treat the ill and injured, and then bombed by NATO. The dead lying in the streets.

Constant ‘targeted’ nightly aerial bombardment by NATO air forces. Constant ‘fire at will’ daytime attacks from ill-disciplined NTC rebels using tanks, rockets, mortars and howitzers.

In their missile-launcher-laden graffiti-decorated pick-up trucks, the rebels drive into the city edges in the morn and back out by dark, hailed as ‘freedom-fighters’ by their embedded foreign press, they more resemble armed gangs. Some are Libyan, dissatisfied with policies of their current government. A few have returned after a generation abroad with historical tribal differences to settle. Others are LIFG veterans wanting to set up a strict Islamic fundamentalism. Qatari forces, UK SAS and CIA are known to have been on the ground in Libya. The battle-hardened are Al Qaeda and mercenaries on the pay-roll of interested parties, who follow where wars lead them, so long as they are paid well to kill, and have licence to loot and rape.

How did this modern-day barbarianism ever come to be?

.....With Orwellian duplicity, air strikes replace ‘no-fly’, war becomes a ‘necessary measure’, and killing civilians constitutes their ‘protection’. Seven months later, 25,194 NATO air sorties later, including 9,363 strike sorties, and more than 50,000 human beings are dead, civilian infrastructure is destroyed, and a sovereign nation is in crisis.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1110/S00113/un-silent-despite-no-grounds-for-nato-war-on-libya.htm

Delves into US Senate committee transcripts quoting US Sec of Defense Robert Gates and US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen. Interesting to say the least.

[holdencaufield]

1. What do you expect?

The UN is working tirelessly, night and day, to figure out how to blame Libya on Israel. Give them time.

[Demeter]

2. It's only illegal if you're not US