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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gaddafi must surrender power now, says Hillary Clinton [View all]
When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.Gruesome details of Gadhafi's rape of teenagers and other crimes revealed
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.570727
Ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi kidnapped and raped hundreds of teenagers in specially built sex dungeons, according to a television documentary to be screened by the BBC next week.
Muammar Gaddafi war crimes files revealed
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/18/muammar-gaddafi-war-crimes-files
Thousands of documents that reveal in chilling detail orders from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's senior generals to bombard and starve the people of Misrata have been gathered by war crimes investigators and are being kept at a secret location at the besieged Libyan port.
Reporter Sheds Light On 'Gaddafi's Harem'
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/10/03/gaddafis-harem-book
When Moammar Gaddafi was killed by Libyan rebels in 2011, his obituaries featured a litany of the atrocities committed in his 42 year rule. But hardly a word was said about his harem: women and men who were kept trapped for Gaddafi to rape when he pleased. That world has now been brought to light through the story of one of the young woman who was in the harem.
The book focuses on the story of Soraya, whom Gaddafi met when he visited her school. She was chosen to present him with flowers. The next day she was taken from her home and put in the harem. She stayed there for five years.
Moammar Gaddafi must pay for atrocities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103233.html
REPORTS FROM Libya Monday were sketchy and confused, but one conclusion appeared certain: The beleaguered dictatorship of Moammar Gaddafi was waging war against its own people and committing atrocities that demand not just condemnation but action by the outside world. Al-Jazeera reported that warplanes had joined security forces in attacking anti-government demonstrators in the capital,
Tripoli; human rights groups said hundreds had been killed in clashes in the country's east. Libya's own delegation to the United Nations described the regime's actions as genocide and asked for international intervention.
Gaddafi must surrender power now, says Hillary Clinton
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/gaddafi-must-surrender-power-now-says-hillary-clinton-448744
Tripoli: An international campaign to force Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi out of office gathered pace on Monday as the European Union (EU) adopted an arms embargo and other sanctions, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly told the Libyan leader to surrender power "now, without further violence or delay."
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How about some tears for the rest of Libya, now that we've thrown it into chaos and misery? [n/t]
Maedhros
May 2015
#17
It is all part on the same. He is out with nothing to replace and now a huge mess. nt
Mojorabbit
May 2015
#134
good god but your op headline is inappropriate. I understand Gaddafi was brutal dictator
cali
May 2015
#2
Yes - think about all the citizens of Libya who have been subjected to the misery
Maedhros
May 2015
#19
I heard several other public servants say the same thing about Iraq and Saddam. I believe they were
Exilednight
May 2015
#74
Sorry you're so scared of a video, it's a timeline of the horror and compilation of hundreds of NEWS
polly7
May 2015
#77
Yes. If we chose that the rebels would likely have been killed and Gaddafi left in charge.
hrmjustin
May 2015
#102
But we do know that bombing the shit out of them created this current mess, yes?
truebrit71
May 2015
#106
Well when you run out of any space for a logical argument you can always pull that one I guess
GummyBearz
May 2015
#143
None of us are saying that. What we are saying is that we have not made it much better by
jwirr
May 2015
#63
I do not want us to stop them. I just do not want to second quess them and do it for them. That
jwirr
May 2015
#70
Yeah, ommm.....total bullshit. Not surprising since your source is counterpunch/global
okaawhatever
May 2015
#120
The Libyan poverty number is an estimate from the United Nations. Libya didn't provide data
okaawhatever
May 2015
#122
Per PNAC, yes. And how many thousands have drowned trying to escape the terror in the new Libya?
Octafish
May 2015
#40
No, that's what you said. I said Gaddafi used the oil revenues to make life better for Libyans...
Octafish
May 2015
#124
I know he wasn't racist. He is an example of a person of color the USA has found easy to kill.
Octafish
May 2015
#149
Soon we'll have our youngest and brightest young men and women (aka boots) vacationing in Syria and
libdem4life
May 2015
#10
I think this thread is to counter a thread which showed Hillary smiling when Gadaffi(sic) met his
still_one
May 2015
#30
Some seemed to show sympathy for poor little OBL after the Hersh story, which gave them an excuse to
still_one
May 2015
#31
can't wait for the cultists to tell us how this is completely different than Iraq
Doctor_J
May 2015
#55
Libya now open for ISIS, Africa destabilized and flooded with guns, new immigration crisis...
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#43
Yup, while our government continues to kiss the hands of the brutal Saudis
AZ Progressive
May 2015
#68