Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya

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Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya

by Susan Lindauer

June 7, 2011

Its a story CNN wont report. Late at night theres a pounding on the door in Misurata.

Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the

women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for

NATO rebels or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels

finish their rape sport, the soldiers cut the womens throats.

Rapes are now ongoing acts of war in rebel-held cities, like an organized military strategy,

according to refugees. Joanna Moriarty, whos part of a global fact-finding delegation

visiting Tripoli this week, also reports that NATO rebels have gone house to house through

Misurata, asking families if they support NATO. If the families say no, they are killed on

the spot. If families say they want to stay out of the fighting, NATO rebels take a different

approach to scare other families. The doors of "neutral homes" are welded shut, Moriarty

says, trapping families inside. In Libyan homes, windows are typically barred. So when

the doors to a family compound get welded shut, Libyans are entombed in their own

houses, where NATO forces can be sure large families will slowly starve to death.

These are daily occurrences, not isolated events. And Gaddafis soldiers are not

responsible. In fact, pro-Gaddafi and "neutral" families are targeted as the victims of

the attacks. Some of the NATO tactics may have occurred in hopes of laying blame on

Gaddafis door. However the attacks are back firing.

Flashback to Serbia

The events are eerily reminiscent of Serbias conflict in the Balkans with its notorious rape

camps except today NATO itself is perpetrating these War Crimes as if they have

learned the worst terror tactics from their enemies.

Their actions would be categorized as War Crimes, just like Serb leader, Slobadon

Milosevicexcept that NATO wont allow itself to face prosecution. According to NATO,

International Law is for the other guy.

NATO is wrong. So long as NATO governments provide the funding, assault rifles, military

training, ground advisers, support vehicles and air power, they are fully responsible for

the actions of their soldiers in the war zone. Libyas rebels are not a rag tag fighting force,

either. Thanks to NATOs largesse, financed by U.S. and British taxpayers, theyre fully

decked out in military uniforms, parading through the streets with military vehicles for all

the people to see.


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And they do see. In Washington, Congress likes to pretend that America has not become

involved in the day to day actualities of military planning. However refugees have

observed U.S, British, French and Israeli soldiers standing by as rebel soldiers attack

civilians.

"Rape parties" are the most graphic examples of NATOs loss of moral control. Oneweeping father told the fact-finding delegation how a couple of weeks ago NATO rebels

targeted seven separate households, kidnapping a virgin daughter from each pro-Gaddafi

family. The rebels were paid for each kidnapped girl, just as they are paid for each Libyan

soldier they kill like mercenary soldiers. They hustled the girls into trucks, and took

them to a building where the girls were locked in separate rooms.

NATO soldiers proceeded to drink alcohol, until they got very drunk. Then the leader

told them to rape the virgin daughters in gang bang style. When theyd finished raping

the girls, the NATO leader told them to cut the breasts off the living girls and bring the

breasts to him. They did this while the girls were alive and screaming. All the girls died

hideous deaths. Then their severed breasts were taken to a local square and arranged tospell the word "whore."

The grieving father spoke to a convention of workers, attended by the global fact-finding

delegation. He was openly weeping, as all of us should. NATOs offenses in Libya are as

terrible and unforgivable as Syrias castration and mutilation of the 13 year old boy that

shocked the world. Yet so long as NATOs the guilty party, the western media has looked

the other way in distaste.

Some of us are paying attention. We can see that NATO has gone rogue in Libya. And

the Libyan people themselves consider it unforgivable. Last week, 2000 Tribal Leaders

gathered in Tripoli to draft a Constitution for the country, as demanded by the British

government. Notoriously, British warships and U.S. drones pounded the streets of Tripoli

with bunker bombs and missiles for days and nights close to where the Tribal Leaders

were meeting. From Tripoli, it felt awfully like the British were trying to stop the Libyan

people from bringing this Constitution to life.

Tribal Leaders Condemn British Aggression

Heres what those 2,000 Tribal Leaders had to say about British aggression, in a

statement approved unanimously on June 3. Sheikh Ali, head of the Tribal Leaders,

delivered it to Joanna Moriarty and other members of the global fact finding mission:

The Libyan people have the right to govern themselves. Constant attacks from the skies,

at all hours of the day have completely disrupted the lives of the families of Libya. There

has never been any fighting in Tripoli, yet we are bombed every day. We are civilians and

we are being killed by the British and NATO. Civilians are people without guns, yet the

British and NATO protect only the armed crusaders from the East by acting as their attack

army. We have read the UN resolutions and there is no mention of bombing innocent


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civilians. There is no mention of assassinating the legitimate authorities in all of Libya.

The Libyan People have the right to select their own leaders. We have suffered occupation

by foreign countries for thousands of years. Only in the last 41 years have we Libyans

enjoyed property ownership. Only in the last 41 years have we seen our country develop.

Only in the last 41 years have we seen all of the Libyans enjoy a better life, and know thatour children will have a better life then we have had. But now with the British and NATO

bombings of our country, we see the destruction of our new and developed infrastructure.

We leaders see the destruction of our culture. We leaders see tears in the eyes of our

children because of the constant fear from the "rain of terror" in the skies of Libya from

the British and NATO bombings. Our old people suffer from heart problems, increased

diabetes and loss of vigor. Our young mothers are losing their babies every day because

of the stress of the British and NATO bombings. These lost babies are the future of Libya.

They can never be replaced. Our armies have been destroyed by the British and NATO

bombings. We cannot defend ourselves from attacks from anyone.

As Tribal Leaders of Libya, we must ask why have the British and NATO decided to wage

this war against the Libyan people? There are a small percentage of dissidents in the east

of Libya that started an armed insurrection against our legitimate authority. Every country

has the right to defend itself against armed insurrection. So why cannot Libya defend

itself?

The Tribal Leaders of Libya demand that all acts of aggression, by the British and NATO,

against the Libyan People stop immediately.

June 3, 2011

Does that sound like NATOs got a winning strategy? If so, they should think again. Even

if Gaddafi falls, NATO has no hope of eliminating the entire tribal structure of the Libya,

which embraces all families and clans. Instead NATO is losing the battle for the hearts and

minds of the people with every missile that smashes into another building.

Tribal Backlash

The Libyan people are fighting back. This report arrived from Tripoli today. It is not

edited, and describes a backlash in tribal warfare from the City of Darna in the East,

where the rebellion is supposed to be strongest:

People found the body of Martyr Hamdi Jumaa Al-Shalwi in Darna city eastern Libya. His

head was cut off and then placed in front of the headquarters of the Internal Security

Dernah. That was after being kidnapped from a checkpoint complex Herich. In response

to this Al-Shalwi family erected a funeral tent to receive condolences in which the green

flag [of Libya] was raised. After the funeral the whole city of Darna rose up with all its

tribes which include:- the Abu Jazia family, Al-Shalwi family, The Quba families, Ain Marra


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families. After that, Al-Shalwi family and Bojazia tribe attacked the headquarters of the

Transitional Council and shot all the rats (rebels) and green flags were raised.

Furthermore, the son of Sofian Qamom was killed, also two members of Al- Qaeda got

killed by residents of the city of Darna. The flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya was raised above

Darna after the clashes.

CNN has reported none of this. The corporate media continues to lull Americans into

false confidence in the progress of the Libyan War. Americans are way out of the loop

as to the failures of the War effort. As a result, Libyans are losing trust in the potential

for friendships with the West. An unlikely champion might restore that faith. Right now

a team of international attorneys is preparing an emergency grievance on behalf of

the Tribal Leaders and the Libyan people. The International Peace Community could

contribute substantially to restoring Libyas faith in the West by supporting this human

rights action. Indeed, the Libyan people and Tribal Leaders deserve our support. Together

we must demand that NATO face prosecution for War Crimes, citing these examples and

others.NATO governments must be required to pay financial damages to Libyan families, on

par with what the U.S. and Britain would demand for their own citizens under identical

circumstances. The world cannot tolerate double standards, whereby powerful nations

abuse helpless citizens. The International Geneva Conventions of War must be enforced,

and equal force of the law must be applied.

The Fight for Misurata

Though attacks are widespread, some of the worst abuses are occurring in Misurata. The

City has the only mega port in Libya, and handles transportation for the country, including

the largest oil and gas depots. NATO will stop at nothing to take the City.

Refugees report that the Israeli Star of David flag was draped over the largest Mosque in

Misurata on the second day of fighting, actions guaranteed to humiliate and antagonize

the local population.

NATO forces have cut off food and medical supplies throughout Libya. But the seas are

plentiful with fish in Mediterranean waters. Brave fishermen have taken their boats out

of port, trying to harvest fish for the hungry population. To break their perseverance,

American drones and British war planes steadily fire missiles on the fishing boats,

deliberately targeting non-military vessels to chase them out of the waters.

Yet for all of its superior fire power and tactical advantages, NATO still appears to be

losing. According to the fact-finding delegation, reporting today, many rebels have left

Misurata and have taken boats back to Benghazi. The big central part of Misurata is

now free and under central military control. The Libyan people shot down two helicopter

gunships near the town of Zlitan. And although Al Jazeera played a grand story about

a major uprising against Gaddafi in Tripoli, one of the Tribal leaders wives lives on the


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street that claims to be the center of the demonstration, and declared that she saw no

crowds out of her window. Buses pictured in Al Jazeera video do not run in Tripoli.

One has to ask: What kind of society does NATO think its creating, if in fact Gaddafi can

be deposed which looks very unlikely? Have Washington and London learned nothing

from their failure in Iraq? The cruelty and debasement of NATOs forces is already fuelingprofound hatreds that will continue for the next generation.

Who could be proud of such "allies?" Not the Libyan people, surely.

NATO soldiers are no better than thugs. Anyone else would be labeled terrorists. Most

worrisome, NATOs actions are guaranteed to have serious consequences for long term

political stability in Libya. Vendettas are forming between tribes and family clans that will

carry over for decades. It is extremely short-sighted and self destructive.

NATO should take this warning to heart: Its soldiers are not legal-proof. The International

Peace Community is already taking action to uphold Libyas natural rights at the United

Nations. Many of us in the International Peace Community shall defend Libyas women.And we shall demand War Crimes prosecution and major financial damages against NATO

governments, on behalf of the people.

Nobodys fooled by NATOs story that Gaddafis the guilty party. We know that

Washington, Britain, France, Italy and Israel are the real culprits.

The murdered women of Misurata shall have justice. NATO can count on it.

Susan Lindauer covered Libya at the United Nations as a U.S. Asset from 1995 to 2003,

and started talks for the Lockerbie Trial. She is the author ofExtreme Prejudice: The

Terrifying Story ofthe Patriot Actand the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.

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