US intel: No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya

[tabatha]

NBC News and news services
updated 2 hours 15 minutes ago

UNITED NATIONS — There is no evidence that Libyan military forces are being given Viagra and engaging in systematic rape against women in rebel areas, US military and intelligence officials told NBC News on Friday.

Diplomats said Thursday that US Ambassador Susan Rice told a closed-door meeting of officials at the UN that the Libyan military is using rape as a weapon in the war with the rebels and some had been issued the anti-impotency drug. She reportedly offered no evidence to backup the claim.

While rape has been a weapon of choice in many other African conflicts, the US officials say they've seen no such reports out of Libya.

Several U.N. diplomats who attended the closed-door Security Council meeting on Libya told Reuters that Rice raised the Viagra issue. The allegation was first reported by a British newspaper.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42824884/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[WatsonT]

1. I doubt they'd need it

lack of viagra hasn't stopped mass rapes in the past.

[golddigger]

2. Another winning Obama pick.

[tabatha]

4. There were rumors

that a medical doctor had found a bottle of Viagra on a Libyan army fighter - maybe it was an isolated case.

Nevertheless, caution should be used, and any allegations handed to the ICC or other humanitarian bodies.

However, it is good that there was no pushing of a false allegation.

[Fool Count]

7. Yeah, sure, no pushing of a false allegation. Except here

on DU by you and other warmongering NATO drones. Oh, and also by a US fucking ambassador to UN
in the official UN meeting, for god's sake. But that wasn't "pushing", just bringing "information"
to attention of the international community. This war, just as all the other recent wars, is just
one unrelentingly brutal raping of the truth by the US/NATO humanitarians. And we are expected to
believe anything they say? I'll take Qaddafi's word over US/NATO's any day, just based on the historical
record of truthfulness.

[tabatha]

8. Yeah, right.

Show me where I pushed that allegation.
I have been doing nothing but reporting what news agencies from across the world have been reporting - including the fact that there was no basis for the Viagra claim. I never mentioned the "rumor" before today.

You are making a false allegation.

Qaddafi's word? You must be joking. Everything he says is a lie, including the fact that he is not using cluster bombs.

And I am not a NATO drone - I am a pro-freedom fighter supporter, because I dislike murderous tyrants.

On edit:

You may not have noticed, but I include reports on Syria and Yemen and other nations in the Arab Spring, where NATO is not involved.

[tabatha]

9. Please try and read this in a balanced manner.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=983762&mesg_id=989243

And I will speak to you again when the ICC report comes out.

[ixion]

3. uh, okay

:eyes:

[Javaman]

5. ...

www.awkwardboners.com

[bertman]

6. The way I remember it, when I was a young soldier boy I carried a 'loaded gun' almost

all the time. Certainly didn't need any help from Viagra.

[Ezlivin]

10. No Weapons of Mass Distension, eh?

I'm glad those pricks are not up to something.


:)