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Africa North
Gadhafi slams Nato over civilian deaths
2011-06-24
[Emirates 24/7] Moammar Qadaffy lashed out at 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...
 over civilian casualties and said Libya is prepared to fight on, calling the alliance "murderers" after an Arclight airstrike on a close associate's family home.
Few thugs around the world know as much about murdering civilians as the Duck of Death...
A few hundred supporters, most of them women, gathered Thursday in Tripoli's Green Square hours after the speech, vowing to defend the Libyan leader against rebels seeking to oust him and NATO forces giving them air support.

Qadaffy also warned the alliance that its more than three-month mission in Libya is a "crusader's campaign" that could come back to haunt the West.

"What you are doing will rebound against you and against the world with destruction, desolation and terrorism. You are launching a second Crusader war that might extend to Africa, Europe and America," he said in an audio address first aired on Libyan state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
late Wednesday.

The address was the first from the Libyan leader since NATO targeted a compound Monday owned by Khoweildi al-Hamidi, a longtime regime insider whose daughter is married to one of Qadaffy's sons.

Qadaffy blasted the alliance for that strike, calling NATO "criminals" and "savages" and asking rhetorically: "Is this house a military target?"

Libya says 19 people, including at least three children and other civilians, were killed in that strike.

NATO has called that target a "command and control" center and says it regrets any civilian deaths.

That bombing came a day after NATO acknowledged that one of its Arclight airstrikes may have slammed into a civilian neighborhood in Tripoli. Libyan officials said nine non-combatants were killed in that strike, though a family member told news hounds at the scene that five people died.

Reports of civilian deaths have provoked intense anger among Qadaffy supporters.

Pro-Qadaffy protesters rallying in Tripoli on Thursday railed against NATO for striking civilians. Some women at the demonstration came armed, vowing to fight to defend their country and its leader.

"Everyone is training (to fight) since high school for a day like today," said dentist Hanin Khalil, 30, an aging Beretta submachine gun slung over her shoulder. "Not only (I) have a weapon. All people have their weapons to protect themselves from NATO."

A coalition including La Belle France, Britannia and the United States began striking Qadaffy's forces under a United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
 resolution to protect civilians on March 19. NATO assumed control of the air campaign over Libya on March 31. It's joined by a number of Arab allies.
Posted by:Fred

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