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| Government minders assault woman as she alleges she has been raped by Gaddafi troops |
| 2011-03-27 |
| A distraught Libyan woman has told journalists in Tripoli how she was raped by government troops, before being bundled away by officials. Iman al-Obeidi sought out foreign reporters in the capital's Rixos hotel on Saturday morning, weeping and claiming that troops had detained her at a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her and then led her away to be gang-raped. As al-Obeidi spoke she was tackled by hotel staff and government minders dragged her out of the hotel. Her story could not be independently verified, but the incident is being reported as an indication of the crackdown on dissenters ordered by Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. Is this an incident staged by Gaddafi for whatever purpose, or is it a sign that the regime is disintegrating? How did she get through security right to the hotel where all the correspondents were assembled? Keeping control of what these reporters can and cannot see and hear should be a priority of the regime. Also she must have known that this might be her death sentence. Something doesn't seem right here. |
| Posted by:Gritle Choling4826 |
| #1 Is this an incident staged by Gaddafi for whatever purpose, or is it a sign that the regime is disintegrating?
I'm that if it was staged, it went badly awry. There's no propaganda value in being so spectacularly thuggish in front of international cameras while you're trying to talk your way out of being bombed cross-eyed by the West and then fed to hungry Islamofascists and angry tribal bumpkins. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-03-27 18:10 |