Civilian Casualties in Question at Tripoli Funeral .

[SpartanDem]

TRIPOLI, Libya - The Libyan government organized a funeral in Tripoli on Thursday for 33 people it said were killed in the latest round of coalition airstrikes, an occasion dozens of supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi used to rail against the West, Arab countries, and residents of the rebel-stronghold of Benghazi in the east.

At the seaside cemetery of Shat Hansheer 33 wooden coffins were lined up for the service, but only 13 bodies were ultimately buried amid conflicting accounts about the circumstances of their death. The rest of the coffins were loaded back up on pickup trucks or into ambulances after the service with officials explaining that the families of the dead wished to bury them in other cemeteries.

Officials said that most of the 13 were civilians but several people in attendance said they were volunteer fighters who were killed battling rebels in Misrata and in towns further east alongside the army. Others said they might have been guarding some of the military installations in Tripoli that were bombed by allied forces over the past few days.

"All I know is that 13 volunteer fighters were killed," said a man from the naval base city of Al-Khums, east of Tripoli. He said that he too was a volunteer fighter who had come to the capital but refused to give his name because he was not authorized to speak with reporters.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703784004576220911110520564.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Since this guy has been making people act as human shields I wonder how many of these really "volunteered"

[Tx4obama]

1. Someone needs to ask Gaddahi about the 8,000+ protesters/civilians that HE had killed

before the UN's no-fly zone mission began.