Obama to Qaddafi: Comply with UN resolution or face military action

Will the US now bomb Israel to force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?

Didnt think so!

The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians causalities in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they will be killing them.

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the action amounts to an 'act of war' that is critical to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power before he massacres any more of his own people," according to the Edmonton Journal. [1] It also added: "The prime minister acknowledged that the military operation will be complex and could lead to casualties among the very civilians that nations are trying to protect, and perhaps among the military personnel being sent to Libya." [2]

The war criminals are back at it again. Hours after the attacks, sources in Libya have reported that three medical facilities were bombarded. [3] Two were hospitals and one a medical clinic.[4] These were civilian facilities. Al-Tajura Hospital was hit as was Saladin Hospital in Ain Zara. The clinic that was bombed was also located in the vicinity of Tripoli, the Libyan capital. [5] Not only where these civilian structures, but they were also all far away from the combat zone.

Civilian air facilities throughout Libya have been attacked. [6] Libyan sources have also said that all the Libyan military academies have also been destroyed. [7] This is a means to prevent Libya from training officers to defend itself.

The same sources have also said that all Libyan military bases were attacked, even ones that have no connection with imposing a no-fly zone. Libyan air bases, naval bases, and ground bases were attacked by the new Iraq-style "coalition of the willing." Moreover, a vast naval blockade around Libya has now been imposed by the U.S. and its allies.

According to internal Libyan sources, two French jets were also shot down by the Libyan military near Janzour (Janzur/Zanzur). [7] Another French military jet was shot down by the Libyans near Anjile. [8] People in Benghazi are also fleeing the Libyan city, because of the war. [9] Surt (Sidra) and Misratah have also been attacked by the French, the U.S., the British and their coalition allies.[10]

The U.S. and its allies are now the ones that are creating a real humanitarian disaster. They talk about peace while they arm the Benghazi-based opposition rebels via the Egyptian military junta, which is as much a military client as its so-called civilian predecessor. [11] This is also a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution that the U.S. and its allies passed, which states that no weapons are to be sent to Libya.

Hillary Clinton was in both Tunisia and Egypt in context of the operations against Libya. Both the regime in Tunis and the military junta in Cairo are overtly and covertly supporting the war against Libya. The autocrats of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have also indictated that they will send military forces to attack Libya.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya specializes on the Middle East and Central Asia. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Globalization. Please consult his other articles about Libya.

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NOTES

[1] Mark Kennedy, Canada joins UN coalition aerial mission on Libya," Edmonton Journal, March 19, 2011.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Sources from within Libya.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Ibid.; Also please note the spelling of this location in the Latin script may variate and not be
official.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Ibid.

[11] Giles Elgood, "Egypt arming Libya rebels, Wall Street Journal reports," ed. Andrew Roche,
Reuters, March 18, 2011.

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"The same sources have also said that all Libyan military bases were attacked, even ones that have no connection with imposing a no-fly zone. Libyan air bases, naval bases, and ground bases were attacked by the new Iraq-style "coalition of the willing." Moreover, a vast naval blockade around Libya has now been imposed by the U.S. and its allies."

This is typical pro-war propaganda being put out by Global Research, an unreliable output of highly dubious "content" designed to infantalise opposition to US/UK imperialism.

There is no "coalition of the willing". This implies consensus of world opinion which does not exist. Countries voting in support of the UN resolution were the UK, France, Bosnia-Hercegovina, the USA, Lebanon, South Africa, Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria and Gabon. Countries abstaining were China, Russia, India, Germany and Brazil.

So we have the US/UK/France backed by half a dozen tiny dependents and affiliates voting in favour of the resolution, arranged against the major power-houses of the world constituting the vast majority of the worlds population. Coalition of the desperate would be more apt.

There is also no "vast" naval blockade being imposed on Libya. Military forces deployed are small and constitute a reduced deployment carrying out restricted acts of engagement designed to be magnified by the pro-war media, of which Global Research is one.

Global Research is fundamentally unreliable as an outlet for coherent independent analysis.

If you are a war-monger, and you want to wage war for the security of profits, you are going to want some way to tackle world disapproval. So you are going to create a number of so-called "anti-war" publications who WILL criticise what you are doing, but will do it in a hysterical way, with a dollop of exaggeration and a smidgen of factual inaccuracy thrown in for good measure. This will ensure mistrust and will act to steer people away from the anti-war cause.

This is "Global Research". It would be more properly called "Global Aversion Policy".

All you liberals who have been supporting the royalist, racist, imperialist loving, cia sponsored, mi6 sponsored rebels, all you fuckers, understand that this has been what you have been supporting from the outset. Once again we have british bombs falling abroad, and once again the liberal left and the anarchists have been in chorus with the british state. Shame on you all.

This guy who uses his miltary and son's units to attack his own people must be stopped.

Good on the UN for doing their job.

"All you liberals who have been supporting the royalist, racist, imperialist loving, cia sponsored, mi6 sponsored rebels, all you fuckers, understand that this has been what you have been supporting from the outset. Once again we have british bombs falling abroad, and once again the liberal left and the anarchists have been in chorus with the british state. Shame on you all."

I don't know what liberals you are talking about nor what anarchists you are talking about. People who read Indymedia do not generally support war. They are people who want an independent view of the situation. They are well aware of the lies used to perpetuate foreign policy for instance, that the Libyan air force has been bombing civilians. To date, there is no evidence whatsoever to support this claim. There is also no evidence whatsoever that the rebels represent the majority of the Libyan people.

These are aspects of this attempt on Libya's oil supplies that will come out sooner or later. For instance, while you have been flinging yourself out your pram about this action and the UN resolution, coalition jets were shooting down Libyan aircraft BEFORE the resolution was passed! Just one of a number of lies that are being traded at the moment.

"This guy who uses his military and son's units to attack his own people must be stopped. Good on the UN for doing their job."

The UN aren't doing anything, least of all their job. This action is being undertaken by a number of EU states that have something to gain. A lot is in play here encompassing a range of issues across a range of areas. The UN has simply rubber-stamped this action because that is what it is there to do. The majority of the worlds population are from countries that have abstained from this action. This is a limited action, with limited scope and limited support.

Your claim that Gaddafi's son has used military units to attack Libyan civilians also, of course, is not backed up with any evidence nor supported by so much as the thinnest sliver of fact. All there is, at the moment, is propaganda desperately trying to make the situation look like it needs a policy of interference. So we have lots of images, video and text content being published to try to justify a fit of foreign policy drama. Almost certainly driven by Nationalists in the political and media arena's unable to cope with the reduced geopolitical circumstances faced by the US/UK.

The action going on at the moment against Libya is part of a broader strategy undertaken by those nations involved in the so-called War-on-Terror. A longer game is in process and that fact will no doubt be addressed in due course.

Governments of Bahrain and Yemen declare war on their protesters ! have the major western powers gone to the UN and demanded action no they have not why because The "Saudis" our allies ha ha are dealing with it and there is no OIL at stake.Wake up people smell the shit.Cameron and Sarkozy are "Zionist" puppets the office of British PM has been like that for decades.
If the student protests in London last Nov had dragged on for a week or so and Cameron had sent the army in do you think that the Arab league would have been able to go to the UN and demand action against the British Government No because there is no OIL at stake.Gaddaffi as much as I dislike dictators like him is dealing with an internal Libyan matter same as Saddam did with the Kurds in Northern Iraq we only get involved when its in our interests ie OIL.With no unrest in the country The UK was quite happy to sell arms to Gaddaffi allow British companies to be located there send the Lockerby bomber back home (which was an outrage and an insult) and not pursue those responsible for the senseless gunning down of PC Yvonne Fletcher........ABSTRACT WESTERN HYPOCRISY