Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam surrounded by loyalists/ AP Photo
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LIZZIE PHELAN REPORTS FROM TRIPOLI AUGUST 22, 2011
22 Monday Aug 2011
Posted by Alexandra in GLOBAL CIVILIANS FOR PEACE, LIBYA
Editor’s Note:
This is just in from Lizzie Phelan and it is good news. The Libyan government has implemented a truly brilliant strategy and it has yielded the results they had hoped for. The tribes, true to their word, have come to Tripoli’s aid. A full report will follow later.
I have now from RELIABLE sources that the Libyan army is still in control of Tripoli. Al J footage of Green Sq was FAKE. Gaddafi went to Green Sq with one of his sons. Things much calmer now. More info soon. – L.P.
I have heard reports that people have come out into Green Square and other parts of the city waving the green flag and that the Libyan army is in control. Now, what we’ve heard is that the strategy of the Libyan government and army was to permit the rebels into the city because previously they have been operating in sleeper cells and therefore it was very difficult to know who they were and where they were hiding, so this strategy was part of bringing them out of the woodwork so that they could be dealt with quite swiftly. We have also heard that the large tribes (she names them) have come to Tripoli to join the battle. We have also heard that Gaddafi was in Green Square with the people. – L.P.
RUMOURS OF THE DEMISE OF THE LIBYAN REGIME HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
22 Monday Aug 2011
Posted by Alexandra in LIBYA, THE FACTS
EDITORIAL
Alexandra Valiente
Libya 360°
As I await clear answers and verified reports from inside Libya, I offer this brief synopsis of today’s events.
Each reporter that I have featured in today’s news speaks honestly from their own perspective, but not one has the entire picture. Much of their reporting was conjecture blended with fact. Keep in mind that they are not able to roam freely to see what is actually happening and their communications are erratic and limited.
My sense is that regardless of Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s profoundly misleading statements, NATO has no victory to celebtate. NATO is delusional and the full extent of the globalist’s insanity was revealed today in CFR president Richard Haas’s call for the occupation of Libya.
In reality, NATO’s mercenaries and al qaeda troops have been lured into a trap. The Libyan army is closing in, encircling the insurgents. NATO’s forces will be defeated.
This information was confirmed first by Lizzie Phelan and later by Susan Lindauer.
There will be tribal disputes to settle afterwards but the grievances are between those supportive of the Jamahiriya and those who comprise the insurrectionist elements and the TNC. The tribes will avenge the lives of every man, woman and child lost through their treachery.
Reports of members of the Libyan government fleeing the country are false.
I have heard from more reliable sources that Muammer al Gaddafi is fighting with the Libyan army, as are his sons.
Which is fact?
Gaddafi has always stated he would die fighting for Libya rather than abandon her to imperialists bent on destroying her and exploiting her resources. I find him far more credible than mainstream propagandists. His life accomplishments are a testament to the fact that he is a man of his word.
Reports that Saif al-Islam and Saadi were arrested and are being held in custody are fabricated. Saif al-Islam made a public appearance today where he affirmed his confidence in the Libyan army’s inevitable victory.
Reports that Khamis Gaddafi was killed are unverified (it would be the fifth time he has been murdered by the media since the war began). As with all present mainstream media news, this is a cruel psyops against the Libyan people.
I am genuinely concerned about the welfare of certain journalists in Tripoli whose lives have been threatened because of their integrity. Among them are Thierry Meyssan, Mahdi Nazemroaya and Lizzie Phelan. We have heard from Thierry and Mahdi today but no one knows what has happened to Lizzie. In her messages last night she stated she had good news. Later we received reports that she was blocked from posting on her blog, her Facebook page and unable to email her friends. She appeared briefly in an RT video filmed just before her communications went down.
I cannot understand how Frankiln Lamb, Thierry Meyssan and Mahdi Nazemroaya are giving interviews on RT and 108morris108 on youtube as well as emailing contacts while Lizzie is unable to communicate by any means. They were in the same hotel in Tripoli. Mahdi mentioned she was among the group of journalists who had been threatened by CIA and MI6 agents working under cover for CNN, because their reports contradicted NATO’s psychological operation. In particular they were ordered not to speak of al qaeda’s involvement in the NATO assault on Tripoli (denial of which is a psyops against the people of NATO member nations and an attempt to conceal NATO’s deep criminality). Franklin was shot in the leg while attempting to gather information on the status of the streets. Mahdi was shot at by a sniper when he went up to the roof of his hotel to see what was happening outside.
The global community must demand that the US, UK, Canadian and French governments guarantee the safe return of all journalists presently trapped in Tripoli.
Webster Tarpley discussed the present danger facing Dr. Moussa Ibrahim and his family. He also went into detail describing what occupation under NATO would look like under the monarchist, Islamic extremists. It is unthinkable. There is no option for Libyans. They would have shattered, impoverished lives if NATO were permitted to overthrow them. This is not about NATO toppling the Libyan government or Gaddafi. It is about the permanent subjugation of the population, the destruction of their direct democracy system of governance and colonial enslavement. The people cannot accept such terms. Dignity is not negotiable.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Lizzie Phelan is safe and has given a brief report on RT here just moments ago.
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NATO TERRORISTS AND THEIR “LEFTIST APOLOGISTS” WILL ANSWER TO HISTORY FOR CRIMES IN LIBYA
22 Monday Aug 2011
Posted by Alexandra
Greg Butterfield on Monday, August 22, 2011
The battle of Tripoli is not over. Currently, forces loyal to Col. Gadhafi and the 1969 nationalist revolution are battling counter-revolutionary “rebel” forces near Gadhafi’s compound. It seems likely that if captured, Gadhafi will be lynched or assassinated like Osama Bin Laden.
The masses of Tripoli and other areas of the country are armed – armed by the very “tyrannical leadership” denounced by the Western imperialists and their lapdog media. The coming days will show if they are able to regroup and mount a struggle to take back Tripoli.
However, some things are already perfectly clear.
The invasion of Tripoli was accomplished by U.S./NATO terror bombing. Al Jazeera news service, which has played a rotten collaborationist role throughout the NATO war on Libya, reported that the “rebels” were calling on NATO for further bombardments against Gadhafi’s compound on their behalf. There are also unconfirmed reports of British and French troops (probably Special Forces terrorists) attempting to enter Tripoli.
Protest against Big Oil in Latin America
Western Big Oil companies are licking their chops at the opportunity to grab Libya’s oil wealth. This morning, Reuters reported Italian and Quatar oil companies were looking forward to getting their share of the spoils for supporting the NATO war. “We don’t have a problem with Western countries like the Italians, French and UK companies. But we may have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil [countries that to some extent opposed the NATO war],” said Abdeljalil Mayouf, “information manager at Libyan rebel oil firm AGOCO.”
Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars noted: “Global central banks will now get to carve up Africa’s most oil-rich nation while simultaneously divvying up around 144 tons of gold bullion – which might go some way to repaying Hugo Chavez after his announcement that Venezuela is to nationalize its precious metals industry. Unless of course Chavez becomes the next head on the chopping block for another ‘humanitarian intervention.’”
CIA-backed Libyan counter-revolutionaries have murdered hundreds of Black Libyans, who comprise 50 percent of the country's population
White terror is unfolding on the streets of Tripoli. Although there is a dearth of reliable reporting from inside, it appears that hundreds have been killed since the invasion of the capital began. The counter-revolutionaries and their CIA / Western intelligence leaders know that many thousands of Libyan civilians have taken up arms in recent months to defend the nation’s sovereignty. We know it, too, because of the courageous work of independent journalists like Lizzie Phelan, who have introduced us to these brave women, men and youth through their reports.
Those independent journalists in Tripoli are now directly in the line of fire. Mathaba news service, which works with them, reports that three out of the five independent journalists were “targeted as soon as the NATO-led rebel advances on Tripoli took place.” At midnight on Aug. 21, Dr. Franklin Lamb was shot in the leg by a sniper near his hotel. “Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya also narrowly escaped death from a sniper targeting him as he stepped out of the hotel to place a sign saying ‘PRESS’, and was additionally threatened by CNN journalists.”
Now add Lizzie Phelan to the list. As of Monday afternoon, she was censored from posting to her Facebook account. In an email message, she too reported warnings from CNN staffers to stop her “traitorous” reporting.
The tragic developments in Libya are a huge setback to the Arab/African revolutionary wave that began in Tunisia and Egypt and continues today in Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere. Under cover of “humanitarian support” for a “popular uprising,” U.S. imperialism and its allies have struck a deadly blow at one of its key adversaries in the region and now plan to take over this strategic country lock, stock and oil barrel, establishing a counter-revolutionary military beachhead in the midst of the ferment.
Perhaps the most shameful thing of all is the rotten role played by many Western leftists in aiding and abetting this imperialist-led onslaught of a sovereign African country. Not only the usual liberal and social-democratic hangers-on, but even some who claim to be “socialists,” “communists” or “anti-imperialists” hopped on the bandwagon to attack the nationalist Gadhafi regime and support the “rebels,” even as they waved the flag of monarchy and lynched darker-skinned African workers. Their support has continued long after it became apparent that the “rebels” were organized, armed, financed and led by the forces of U.S., British and French imperialism.
Today they are cheering on White Terror in the streets of Tripoli and death from the skies by Washington, London and Paris. Tomorrow they will be cheering further imperialist aggression against Syria, Iran and Venezuela.
These shameful acts of imperialism and its enablers of the “left” will not be forgotten or forgiven by the people of Libya or genuine anti-imperialists anywhere.
Long live sovereign Libya and its people! Victory to Col. Gadhafi and the true forces of resistance! Death to U.S. imperialism!
We will not think about death or life. We will think about the call of the duty.
– Muammar Gadhafi, 7th June, 2011
TRIPOLI: NATO IS NOT WINNING. MI6-CIA THREATENING TO MURDER JOURNALISTS TRYING TO REPORT THE TRUTH.
22 Monday Aug 2011
Posted by Alexandra in CIA, LIBYA, M16, NATO
Editor’s Note:
The interviewer’s naivite regarding the CIA-MI6 is shocking. He actually is stupid enough to think these agents are not assassins and that the people should trust them.
Journalists are forbidden to mention al-qaeda under threat of death. Nice work, North Atlantic Terrorist Organization!
Read about al-qaeda in Libya here
~ Alexandra
‘NATO not winning’: Gunfire heard during Tripoli live report
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is in the hotel in Tripoli where the foreign press have been obliged to stay during the conflict is afraid for his safety and says he’s been threatened. Rebels say they now control most of Tripoli, and have taken Libyan state TV off air. But some reports also suggest that opposition fighters have been looting private houses. Three of Gaddafi’s sons are now thought to be in rebel hands. Opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed. There are reports rebels are closing in on Gaddafi’s compound, but the whereabouts of the Colonel are unknown. Some rumours suggest Gaddafi may be in talks with South Africa about a possible escape route, despite denials from both sides. And NATO insists it will continue combat air patrols until all government forces surrender. Following a night of chaos in the capital, crowds have been seen in Tripoli’s central square waving revolutionary flags.
‘CIA, MI6 ‘journos’ in Tripoli Rixos hotel, outside NATO loses ground’
Journalists trapped in a Tripoli hotel say there are heavy explosions close-by, power is down, and there’s gunfire outside. Journalist Thierry Meyssan, who’s founder and chairman of online newspaper the Voltaire Network is in the Rixos hotel in Tripoli and says NATO forces are doing everything to back up rebels.
Tripoli: Voltaire Network concerned about the death threats hanging over Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network, Monday, August 22, 2011, 13:20 GMT – Voltaire Network is concerned about the threats targeting two of its team members in Tripoli. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Research Associate, Centre for Research on Globalization, and Thierry Meyssan, president and founder of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference, are entrenched in the Hotel Rixos, around which heavy fighting is taking place. Reportedly, the order was given to shoot them down.
Thierry Meyssan has been in Tripoli since June 23, 2011. He started out by heading a fact-finding mission of Voltaire Network associates. For the past two months, he has been carrying out a journalistic investigation of the conflict. His stance differs from that of his peers in that: he describes the rebellion as a minority action, permitting to justify in the eyes of world public opinion a classic military operation.
Whatever the positions taken by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan, their killing would be unacceptable. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan are not combatants, but journalists. Those who support this war, thinking that it is about democracy and freedom, can not possibly condone the assassination of journalists.
Currently, five states have offered them diplomatic protection. But the fighting around the hotel prevents them from leaving the premises and some of the embassies concerned have been encircled to make access impossible.
Aware of the threats hanging over them, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Thierry Meyssan have no intention of exposing themselves to any “stray bullet”.
Voltaire Network calls on the citizens of those countries involved in the war to exert pressure on their governments to ensure the safety of these journalists. It is asking each and everyone to play his/her role as citizens and to disseminate this information.
RUMOURS OF THE DEMISE OF THE LIBYAN REGIME HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
NATO TERRORISTS AND THEIR “LEFTIST APOLOGISTS” WILL ANSWER TO HISTORY FOR CRIMES IN LIBYA
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