@LoraLeighParikhLora Leigh Parikh
As Libya Bries Airstrike Victims, Omurners Hint at Deception http://bit.ly/iK2yyO?C1F #World #el #organization #treaty #tripoli #libya
Then, in minutes, the few hundred mourners who had gathered in this city melted away into a perfect spring day, ending another funeral — this time for the victims of a Friday bombing in the eastern oil town of Brega — that had been transformed into a pageant for denouncing the NATO forces whose bombs are taking a regular toll in Libyan lives.
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As Libya Bureis Airstrike Victims, Mourners Hint at Deceptionhttp://bit.ly/m40GTI?4wI #World #2010 #middle #north #east #treaty #tripoli
For the officials who shepherd the small band of foreign journalists covering the war from here to such events, seeing them as powerful propaganda tools to be used against the Western powers, the burials on Saturday provided a moment that even the most accomplished propagandists could not have written into their script.
horsefanatic Jack McKee
Burials held in Tripoli for alleged victims of NATO airstrikehttp://bit.ly/jz5MAu
ust before the coffins arrived, two high-flying aircraft — NATO planes, for sure, since others are banned under a United Nations-imposed no-fly zone — wrote vapor trails high above.
As one aircraft circled back to the northeast, another flew on to the southwest, toward the western mountains along the Tunisian and Algerian borders where there has been intense fighting between Libyan rebels and the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. At the sight of each aircraft, mourners pointed in agitation to the sky, demanding that foreign TV crews capture the moment and shouting choruses of support for Colonel Qaddafi.
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Burials held in Tripoli for alleged victims of NATO airstrike -http://bit.ly/jaflYd how comes Nato still hasn't bomb NationalLibyanTV
The moment captured the anger and futility felt by Libyans still loyal to Colonel Qaddafi as NATO aircraft pound targets in Tripoli and other government-held areas night after night, day after day, with the total of sorties flown since the air raids began now cresting 2,500.
Western defense officials have said that 40 to 50 percent of the Qaddafi forces’ striking power has been degraded, and with it almost all the capability, in fighter aircraft, missiles and antiaircraft batteries, that Libya had to confront an aerial invader. So far, only one NATO plane has crashed, and that was early in the conflict, after what NATO officials said was a technical failure.
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