French ex-Minister in Libya, would defend Gaddafi

[The Northerner]

(Reuters) - Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas visited Libya as a lawyer to prepare a legal case on behalf of victims of NATO bombing and said he was prepared to defend leader Muammar Gaddafi if he is sent to The Hague.

Dumas, who served as foreign minister under socialist President Francois Mitterrand, said he had seen several civilian victims of NATO bombing in a hospital and had been told by a doctor there that there were as many as 20,000 more.

NATO says it has struck only military targets. Despite repeated promises by Gaddafi's media officials, Western journalists based in Tripoli have been shown no evidence of large numbers of civilians killed or injured by NATO bombing.

"This is brutal, brutal aggression against a sovereign country," Dumas told a news conference in a Tripoli luxury hotel on Sunday, attended by people introduced as family members and supporters of relatives of civilian casualties.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/29/us-libya-france-dumas-idUSTRE74S2UA20110529

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1. "Western journalists based in Tripoli have been shown no evidence of large numbers of civilians"

If it had happened it would have been shown over and over and over again on Libyan TV.

Bodies claimed to have been killed by NATO, were shown with great fan fare to the media, who were astonished at the fact that the bodies had bullet holes. Another body shown as evidence of NATO bombing, was recognized by the parents as being a son who had been "disappeared" by Gaddafi.

Please, please defend Gaddafi at the Hague - the world will be shown all of the real facts and that Gaddafi is an habitual liar.

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2. Where's the money coming from for all these

Western bombs, and bunker busters.

Greece is going under, Portugal back in recession,
England pissing & moaning about money & jobs,
The US growing jobs @ mcdonalds-- where's the money coming from to bomb north Africa but neglect our own infrastructure?