Libya blog: Reuters' team leaks REBEL practice of PROPAGANDA to cover their attrocities

[Distant Observer]

Every once in a while a media tweet leaks out that shows how the Nato-backed forces lie to cover-up aspects of their operation that might be unpopular in the west. The brutal seige of opposition stronghold of Sirte is a case in point.

After weeks of bombing, rocketing and starving the population of food, water, the new regime is now blocking any life-saving medical supplies from getting into Sirte -- and aggressively pretending that they are not.

Of course, the MSM - including Al Jazeera -- are all owned by the very countries participating in the NATO bombing and one rarely sees even a glimmer of information that exposes the falsehoods flowing from the new Libya leadership. During the past 40 years under Gaddafi dictatorship we never saw the relentless destruction of all opposition that we witness in Libya today.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/oct/03/syria-libya#block-11

12.41pm: Reuters and Al Jazeera are reporting that a Red Cross convoy hoping to bring urgently needed medical supplies to the centre of Sirte was forced to turn back this morning after coming under fire.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr tweeted that the aid trucks had turned back "after heavy exchange of fire", with forces in the city, and an NTC commander told Reuters:


The rebels secured the way for the International Red Cross to go but as soon as they entered the city they returned because of the (pro-Gaddafi) militias firing. We did not start the firing. The militias started the firing.

But a Reuters team who witnessed the incident said they saw no incoming fire from the Gaddafi loyalists inside Sirte.

[Distant Observer]

1. kick

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Once one proclaims one's side to be the good guys, one may do as one pleases

The whole justification for this greasy resource-grab was protecting innocent civilians from Qaddafi.

Wait...now I get it: it's to protect them from Qaddafi...

All animals are created equally, but some animals are more equal than others.

[Distant Observer]

9. The devasting rocketing or pro-Gaddafi cities is the worst war-crime in Libya todate

[EFerrari]

3. I was just about to post this.

K&R

[Distant Observer]

10. Interesting how one has to rifle through to find any mention of the awful truth on our "friends"

[EFerrari]

4. Remember how Western journalists risked life and limb to report from Misrata?

@medialens Media Lens Remember how Western journalists risked life and limb to report from Misrata? Why are they not now reporting from Sirte? Any thoughts?

http://twitter.com/#!/medialens/status/120901360718839808

[Distant Observer]

5. Well, its ok to massacre people in Sirte since they were happy with the DEMONIC Gaddafi

NATO need to teach the world a lesson about being happy under tyrannical rule that provides free health care, social services and education.

[countryjake]

8. Exactly!

A siege of this sort would not be very good for ratings, now would it. Hell, they were dying in Misrata to get THAT story, but now...crickets.

[blindpig]

6. k&r

[TransitJohn]

7. K & R

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