West plays 'al-Qaeda' card on Libya

[JanDutchy]

Source: Press TV

Western media downplay the popular revolution in Libya to a wave of unrest created by al-Qaeda, in order to justify Western leaders' silence in the face of the deadly crackdown on people in the North African country.


Abu Yahya al-Libi, the person whom the West claims to be an al-Qaeda commander, has called for the incumbent Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi to be toppled.

In a 30-minute videotape posted on the Internet, Abu Yahya asserted that after the collapse of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt it is now Libya's turn, Deutsche Welle reported.

Whenever Gaddafi and the US want to kill civilians, they claim that they are al-Qaeda so that they could justify the killings.

The new videotape by a person claimed to be an al-Qaeda commander is a new tactic for justifying the killing of innocent Libyan civilians

Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/169968.html

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Journalists under attack in Libya: The tally

Rebels and foreign journalists take cover during an air strike at a rebel checkpoint in Al Ugaila in Libya. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)Since Libya's political unrest erupted last month, CPJ has documented more than 40 attacks on the press. They include 25 detentions, five assaults, two attacks on news facilities, the jamming of Al-Jazeera and Al-Hurra transmissions, at least three instances of obstruction, and the interruption of Internet service. At least six local journalists are unaccounted for. Numerous journalists have also reported the confiscation of equipment. Here's a running list of all attacks on journalists and the media in Libya since February 16:


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Free people, and also Libya

[RandomThoughts]

1. Thats use of label trap.

the al-Qaeda label is loaded with bad thoughts, so when applied to some situation, people with the macro loaded that way can have a reaction to some event attached to there thoughts.


I once heard al-Qaeda actually meant database and have wondered if the entire word is a PR created word, or group that never even existed in that form. I wonder if extream people that distort Islam instead of some other religion call themselves by that label.

I also know some of the tapes shown about that group are manufactured.


To understand the mindset of some you have to go back to the cold war thought. Where the US went extream against communism to take the Corporate role, and the communism went extream against Capitalism to take the communal role. Although both groups got taken over by a group that supported war to some extent.

In those groups anything said to the general population can be heard by some 'supposed' enemy, or the other group. So even something like education becomes a possible leak, and all knowledge to any group not 'in the club' of some organization is tried to be limited. And secrecy becomes a priority.

Then that creates thoughts of two tier, like in the book, The Time Machine, where one group lives off a naive peaceful group of people that are most people in society.

The interesting thing, is the two tier justice, fits nicely into 'war' thoughts, since empathy for what the top sees as the bottom is broken. So then war merges the top of both the communist and the capitalist, and can wage war on peasants.

It is fascinating, but also sad. And why consolidations are problems.