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Africa North

Mounting Evidence of Rebel Atrocities in Libya

2011-04-20

While the International Criminal Court has announced that it is investigating charges of war crimes against Muammar al-Gaddafi and other members of the Libyan regime, harrowing video evidence has emerged that appears to show atrocities committed by anti-Gaddafi rebels. Among other things, the footage depicts summary executions, a prisoner being lynched, the desecration of corpses, and even a beheading. The targets of the most serious abuse are frequently black African prisoners. The ultimate source of the footage appears to be rebel forces or sympathizers themselves.

What is probably the most harrowing of the clips depicts a public beheading. A man with a long knife can be seen alternately sawing and hacking at the neck of a man who has been suspended upside-down. The victim's inert body is soaked in blood. The beheading takes place in front of a burnt-out building in what appears to be a public square. The Dutch public broadcaster NOS has identified the location as the main square of the rebel capital of Benghazi.
Rest of the article describes the atrocities and the links. Really, I don't know why anyone is surprised. It is a CIVIL WAR. This shit happens.

Posted by:DarthVader

#11 There is a stone wall in a cemetary in Lockerbie I would invite you to visit.

And there is a site in downtown Manhattan, under which I was walking in the subway tunnel one sunny morning when word came that a bomb had detonated in the World Trade Center, requiring that all trains be rerouted uptown. Just as we quickly overlooked the tens of millions killed by our former Nazi and Shintoist enemies as the Iron Curtain came down over the Eastern Bloc and an increasing part of the Third World, we may find it advantageous overlook incidents between us and some of the Commies who scored points against us - especially in view of the fact that jihadists killed thousands back in the continental United States. In looking back at the Lockerbie incident, I think I've just figured out why Sarkozy seems to want Gaddafi out at any cost - UTA 772 (France's version of Pan Am 103).

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-04-20 23:04

#10 I don't think Gaddafi the Commie has done anything remotely like this.

There is a stone wall in a cemetary in Lockerbie I would invite you to visit.

Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-20 22:36

#9 What kind of an idiot thought that Arabs won't commit atrocities?

The ones that bought the line that this group would be in the mode of other so-called freedom fighters?

Posted by: Pappy 2011-04-20 22:28

#8 Somehow, I am starting to believe I would derive some sort of perverse satisfaction from seeing Moo-mar come out on top of this.

Most importantly, because it'd be perceived (by some) as a defeat for Bambi.

Posted by: Bobby 2011-04-20 21:31

#7 What is probably the most harrowing of the clips depicts a public beheading. A man with a long knife can be seen alternately sawing and hacking at the neck of a man who has been suspended upside-down. The victim's inert body is soaked in blood. The beheading takes place in front of a burnt-out building in what appears to be a public square. The Dutch public broadcaster NOS has identified the location as the main square of the rebel capital of Benghazi.

I don't think Gaddafi the Commie has done anything remotely like this. This is jihadist theater - designed simultaneously to frighten non-jihadists and recruit believers of a similar bent. All the more reason to hope that Gaddafi liquidates the opposition.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-04-20 20:39

#6 "This would appear to be something to avoid, Mr President."

So he'll plunge right in, of course. :-(

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-20 19:28

#5 This would appear to be something to avoid, Mr President.

Posted by: Unavigum Turkeyneck2012 2011-04-20 18:51

#4 I would expect it in any civil war. If I found foreign mercenaries supporting the government forces suppressing me here in a war, I surely would shoot them in the back of the head and dump them in a ditch.

Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-20 15:37

#3 What kind of idiot would expect a population that has known nothing but violence to be humane in the treatment of their former oppressors or their agents?

The American MSM and their masters the Socialist/Nationalist Democrats.

Posted by: Ulolurt Turkeyneck5976 2011-04-20 15:31

#2 What kind of idiot would expect a population that has known nothing but violence to be humane in the treatment of their former oppressors or their agents?

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-04-20 15:09

#1 What kind of an idiot thought that Arabs won't commit atrocities?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-20 15:02

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