MCKINNEY IN LIBYA

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Brian drew our attention to the post entitled "MCKINNEY LEADS DELEGATION OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS TO LIBYA."



The following comes from: Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli.

"Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of my hotel.

"I left my room at the Rexis Al Nasr Hotel and walked outside the hotel and I could smell the exploded bombs.

"There were local people everywhere milling with foreign journalists from around the world.

"As we stood there more bombs struck around the city.

"The sky flashed red with explosions and more rockets from NATO jets cut through low cloud before exploding.

"I could taste the thick dust stirred up by the exploded bombs.

"I immediately thought about the depleted uranium munitions reportedly being used here--along with white phosphorus.

"If depleted uranium weapons were being used what affect on the local civilians?

"Women carrying young children ran out of the hotel. Others ran to wash the dust from their eyes.

"With sirens blaring, emergency vehicles made their way to the scene of the attack. Car alarms, set off by the repeated blasts, could be heard underneath the defiant chants of the people.

"Sporadic gunfire broke out and it seemed everywhere around me. Euronews showed video of nurses and doctors chanting even at the hospitals as they treated those injured from NATO's latest installation of shock and awe.

"Suddenly, the streets around my hotel became full of chanting people, car horns blowing, I could not tell how many were walking, how many were driving. Inside the hotel, one Libyan woman carrying a baby came to me and asked me why are they doing this to us?

"Whatever the military objectives of the attack (and I and many others question the military value of these attacks) the fact remains the air attack was launched a major city packed with hundreds of thousands of civilians.

"I did wonder too if the any of the politicians who had authorized this air attack had themselves ever been on the receiving end of laser guided depleted uranium munitions. Had they ever seen the awful damage that these weapons do a city and its population? Perhaps if they actually been in the city of air attack and felt the concussion from these bombs and saw the mayhem caused they just might not be so inclined to authorize an attack on a civilian population."

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CYNTHIA McKINNEY ON LIBYA

http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/ drew our attention to "Cynthia McKinney on Obama and Libya"

According to Cynthia McKinney on 27 March 2011:

1. Oil, Israel and military bases.

In 2005 former CIA agent Ray McGovern told members of the US Congressthat "the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel, and military bases craved by administration neocons" so that "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world."

2. Oligarchs.

On September 11, 1990, President George H W Bush spoke of a New World Order, which means 'rule by a few oligarchs'.

3. We can see 'the oligarchization of the U.S. economy.'

4. The US military.

The US attack on Libya is called a "humanitarian intervention."

"In reality, the US military ... causes civilian pain, suffering, destruction, and death..."

"US troops threw a grenade at an innocent Afghan boy before chopping off his finger and later using it as 'gambling chip' in a game of cards." (U.S. troops cheering.)

5. The US record

In 1994 a US missile shot down a plane carrying both the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira.

This led to the Rwandan Genocide.

The US did nothing to provide humanitarian intervention.

Today, the Obama Administration is responsible for its own war crimes.

US taxpayers continue to pay for the continued subjugation of Palestine.

The Obama Administration goes in for Balkanization, carefully crafted chaos, and death and destruction to achieve its unstated objectives.

6. What about Libya?

Libya has oil.

Sarkozy's actions in Libya aid Israel.

Le Figaro newspaper identified Sarkozy as a Mossad asset.

"As long as Muslims are fighting each other they won't have time to focus on Israel or Palestine."

AFRICOM, the United States military's Africa Command, was created to give the US control of Africa.

Libya's Revolution brought free health care and education to the people and subsidized housing.

Libyans have a form of direct democracy. The US is going in for counter-Revolution.

7. What about Lockerbie?

A Member of the UK Parliament has said that the evidence in the Lockerbie Bomb case was planted by the CIA.

The Member of Parliament did his own investigation and discovered to his satisfaction that "the [timing] device was a C.I.A. plant."

8. What about Gaddafi?

Gaddafi's daughter was murdered by US bombs.

Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad defector, revealed that the bombing took place as a result of faked intelligence and that Gaddafi was set up by Israel in Operation Trojan.

According to Ostrovsky, a "radio transmitter smuggled into Tripoli by the Mossad, broadcast messages designed to fool the United States into thinking Libya was about to launch a massive terror attack on the West."

Gaddafi provided the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela the means to defeat apartheid in South Africa.

9. The Libyan Rebels

The National Front for the Salvation of Libya held its most recent meeting in the United States in July 2007.