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Related: About this forumAmnesty International: Libyan militias are spiraling out of control
Download the report here: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE19/012/2012/en
During a visit to Libya in May and June, Amnesty International found that hundreds of armed militias continue to act above the law, many refusing to disarm or join the national army or police force. The Ministry of Interior told the organization that it has been able to dismantle four militias in Tripoli, a tiny proportion of the total number.
In a new report 'Libya: rule of law or rule of militias?', the organization says that nearly a year after Tripoli fell to the revolutionary fighters (thuwwar), ongoing violations -- including arbitrary arrests and detention, torture including to death, impunity for unlawful killings and forcible displacement -- are casting a shadow over the country's first national elections since the fall of al-Gaddafi's regime.
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What is being done is a massive transition in the Middle East from secular US/UK-sponsored (Muburak, Ben Ali, etc) or tolerated (Ghaddafi) thug Arab dictatorships to a Qatar/Saudi-approved Sunni 'controlled fundamentalist' model that uses the Muslim Brotherhood as its template. The Muslim Brotherhood was a creation of the British Intelligence back in the mid 1920's, and has been used as a foil and source of purposeful internal tensions ever since.
Notice that in Egypt for example, it came down to 2 choices for president, one being the former underling of Mubarak (Shafiq) and the Brotherhood's candidate (Morsi). Either way, both sides have origins of support from the empiric West. Both sides (Military v Brotherhood) will be played off against each other, in a constant dialetical struggle that guarantees no pan-Arabist such as Nassar will arise to threaten the new power structure.
Plus, as mentioned above NATO/US/UK are doing the dirty work for Saudi Arabia and Qatar, et al, of clearing out all the barriers to their desired march of Sunni domination of all the historical caliphate. Thus you have the attacks on Syria (Allawite), and then Iran (Shi'ite).
The ironic thing is that Bush's murderous war in Iraq (driven by neo-con greed for power and oligarchic control) actually succeeded in doing IRAN a huge favour, by removing their most hated enemy, and installing a Shia-led government. Ahmed Chalabi (an Iranian double agent) conned the neo-cons.
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I have posted on this for so long, this was so predictable.
If you think Libya is bad, wait till the empire busts up Syria. For a clue as to how that will look, study the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).
And in closing, as soon as Syria is finished being blown apart by the war pigs, it's on to the real target, Iran.
If Obama is still the president, how many will fall in lock-step behind the Iran War?
Will Democrats simply pull the mirror-image of Rethug support for Bush's Iraqi slaughter?
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Amnesty International: Libyan militias are spiraling out of control (Original Post)
stockholmer
Jul 2012
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tru
(237 posts)1. Thanks, Hillary.
I told you so.
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)2. Big K and R
But but Gaddafi would have been worse. Worse for the west trying to take over another nation of brown and black people. Sovereign states are bad for the west and their blood sucking corporations.
Keep up with good work Stockholmer