So Younes was being brought back by the rebels to stand trial, but then killed by Qaddafi loyalists

[PurityOfEssence]

That's the first draft of history, anyway.

Like everything else about this "rebellion" and our "humanitarian intervention", it reeks of sloppy bullshit. Presumably, Hister, the CIA golden boy will now take the reins. Maybe not. Maybe this is an act of the Islamists, who are more powerful than we'd ever like to admit. Regardless, the TNC's first few bits of propaganda don't quite gel.

The allegations that he was providing arms for the loyalists has about as much of a whiff of authenticity as the systematic rape allegations, the constantly repeated refrain that Qaddafi was a compliant partner in the exploitation of his people's oil (thus "proving" that it couldn't be about oil) and the deceptive claims that civilians were being threatened with extermination. For the more shrill, the misused term for the latter invention was "genocide".

Time will tell, but the first bits of obfuscation are just as clumsy as much of the rest of this on-the-cheap war of resource thievery.

This little episode will be interesting to monitor. I'd like to hear from the rebel-apologists sooner than later to hear what the skewed party line is to explain these contradictory events and statements.

[JackRiddler]

1. Wow. That's some story.

[JackRiddler]

2. kick

[malaise]

3. Have you seen this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/29/libyan-rebels-rift-death-younis

[PurityOfEssence]

4. The Associated Press suggests that it's the LIFG (Islamists) settling an old score

They don't come right out and say it, but the message is clear that they believe Agoury's accusation against them.

This confirms many suspicions of the true nature of much of the home-grown element of this rebellion: Fundamentalists bent on revenge for their foiled jihad of 1995-6.

AP article from Forbes

Here's a clip from the article:

Thousands marched in Younis' funeral procession on Friday, as men draped the rebel tricolor flag over his coffin and carried it to a cemetery, where he was buried.

Younis' son, Ashraf, broke down, crying and screaming as they lowered the body into the ground.

"We want Moammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" he shouted at the crowd, betraying his frustration with the months of chaos in the country and a desire for a return to normalcy.

Once again, as the interventionists continually claim, it's all very simple, the "good guys" are obvious and this isn't a ginned-up sham revolution to cover foreign aggressive theft.

Thanks for posting the Guardian article. The sheer sloppy lie of him being taken by rebels for questioning and then somehow having been killed by Loyalists is amateur hour. These guys are bush-league in every sense of the term.