Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Jounalists unable to find civilian casualties in NATO airstrikes of Libya.

There is the issue of Gadaffi's son and two grandchildren.  If nothing else the grandchildren are definately civilians.  The USA under Reagan did the same thing.  I don't know if that is the price a tyrant pays for keeping his family within a military intelligence complex, though.

...“This is a case of road traffic accident,” it said in English.   “This is the trouth [sic].” (TRUTH) (click title to entry - thank you)
Nearly three months into NATO’s bombing campaign, Moammar Gaddafi’s government churns out daily propaganda about the alliance supposedly inflicting civilian casualties. Last week, it said that 718 people had died from mid-March to late May and that 4,067 had suffered significant injuries.
But it has failed to show foreign journalists more than a handful of dead or wounded people. Indeed, when reporters are taken on official trips, what they see suggests that NATO is being accurate and careful.
In the past week alone, up to a dozen loud explosions have been heard in Tripoli every night, but reporters are allowed to see only a fraction of the bombed sites.
On Sunday, journalists were taken to look at some broken windows in a church but were not allowed to visit a nearby military site that had been destroyed. Then they were taken to a farm and shown a dead dog and dead chickens.
A man there said no humans had been injured, but that story changed by the time the journalists reached the Sharia al-Zawiyah hospital.
As the baby slept, a man arrived at the bedside and was introduced first as a Health Ministry spokesman, and then as a neighbor of the family.
“Killing our children, this is what NATO does,” he said, giving his name as Imad Gheith. Prompted by an official at his side, he repeated the regime’s slogan. “God, Moammar, Libya, that’s all we need.”...


Libya: Gaddafi’s son, three grandchildren killed in NATO air strike (click here)

Sunday 01 May 2011

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in inplaces, leaving mangled rods of reinforcing steel hanging down among splintered chunks of concrete....