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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/01-8

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In Libya, a bloodbath looms

In These Times
by Robert Parry

08/31/11

NATO s war in Libya, which began with high-minded declarations about 'protecting civilians,' now appears likely to end with a bloodbath that will claim the lives of many civilians, albeit pro-Gaddafi civilians, not the earlier threatened anti-Gaddafi civilians. Ali Tarhouni, a senior official of the NATO-backed Libyan rebels, summed up this Orwellian reality with a phrase reminiscent of the famous Vietnam War quote that 'we had to destroy the village in order to save it.' Tarhouni was quoted by the Associated Press as saying 'Sometimes to avoid bloodshed you must shed blood - and the faster we do this the less blood will be shed'...

http://tinyurl.com/3zndc95


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Libyan Rebel Military Chief Says He Was Tortured By CIA

By Patrick Cockburn

Abdulhakim Belhaj s allegations suggest a close relationship between the US and Gaddafi's regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29012.htm



Libyan Rebels Detain Black Africans

Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital.

http://huff.to/p9OfsU



How the West Cooked Up the 'People s Uprising'

The media, as is so often the case, has botched its job. Thus virtually all of its resources over the past six months have gone into providing us with an entertainment, a horse race, a battle, with almost no insight into the deeper situation.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Untold-Story-in-Libya-by-Dean-Baker-110902-721.html


From Information Clearing House

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Files Note Close CIA Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit

Rod Nordland, The New York Times News Service: 'Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya s former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service - most notably suggesting that the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite that country s reputation for torture.'

http://www.truth-out.org/files-note-close-cia-ties-qaddafi-spy-unit/1315061145



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