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Libyan revolutionaries bitch about NATO
[Iran Press TV] NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces fail to stop an assault on four large oil storage containers near the strategic and besieged Libyan city of Misratah. Aircraft operated by pro-Qadaffy forces dropped bombs on the storage tanks and damaged another four containers in the process. Revolutionary forces say they warned NATO about the planes before the Pro-Qadaffy forces used small planes in their overnight attack in Qasr Ahmed close to the port. "Four tanks were totally destroyed and huge fire erupted which spread now to the other four. We cannot extinguish it because we do not have the right tools," Rooters quoted opposition front man Ahmed Hassan as saying. Government forces have bombarded Misratah over the past several weeks, attempting to prevent supplies from reaching the port. Last month, the head of the opposition's armed forces, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis, told news hounds in Benghazi that NATO's inaction had allowed government troops to advance and kill people in Misratah and other cities. Younis also threatened to ask the United Nations ...what was originally a diplomatic initiative trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... Security Council to suspend the NATO mission in Libya if the military alliance does not do "its work properly." Critics, however, accuse the West of hypocrisy over the offensive in Libya, along with its silence towards the brutal crackdowns on similar anti-regime movements elsewhere in the Arab world, such as in Bahrain, Soddy Arabia and Yemen. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-08 |
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