Libya
Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime
By Will Morrow, February 11, 2012
The war crimes and abuses being perpetrated by the TNC regime further expose the claims that the NATO allies intervened for humanitarian purposes to rescue the Libyan people from violent repression.
Former Gaddafi official tortured to death in Libya
By Patrick Martin, February 4, 2012
The murder of Omar Brebesh follows a series of reports by human rights groups on torture in the prisons of the new “democratic” Libya.
US-NATO war crimes in Libya
By Barry Grey, January 23, 2012
A report released last week by Middle East human rights groups presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy “rebel” forces.
Human rights groups charge NATO with war crimes in Libya
By Bill Van Auken, January 21, 2012
There is strong evidence that NATO carried out war crimes in its eight-month war for regime-change in Libya, according to a report released Thursday by Middle East human rights groups.
Libya: TNC releases anti-democratic draft electoral laws
By Will Morrow, January 13, 2012
The NATO-installed regime’s legislation features provisions preventing people nominating themselves as candidates.
Former Tripoli Brigade leader Mahdi al-Harati outed as US asset
By Steve James, December 3, 2011
An article in Ireland’s Sunday World has drawn attention to relations between Mahdi al-Harati, former leader of the Tripoli Brigade of the National Transition Council, which played a central role in the NATO assault on Libya, and an unnamed US intelligence agency.
Gaddafi’s son captured in Libya
By Patrick O’Connor, November 22, 2011
The capture of Saif al Islam has raised the spectre of a drawn-out criminal trial in The Hague, with embarrassing details emerging of the intimate ties between the Gaddafi regime and Western powers.
New Libyan prime minister installed by NATO-backed regime
By Peter Symonds, November 3, 2011
The main qualification of the relatively unknown Abdurrahim al-Keib for office is his acceptability to the NATO powers that waged a predatory war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
NATO declares formal end to criminal war on Libya
By Bill Van Auken, November 1, 2011
NATO formally ended its seven-month predatory war against Libya at midnight Monday, having achieved its aim of regime change and opened up the country to unrestrained exploitation of its huge energy resources by Western oil companies.
Mass killings, arbitrary detention under new Libyan regime
By Patrick O’Connor, October 25, 2011
The barbaric conclusion to the NATO military campaign in Libya underscores the fraud of the declared “liberation.”
US and NATO murder Muammar Gaddafi
By Bill Van Auken, October 21, 2011
The savage killing Thursday of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi served to underscore the criminal character of the war that has been prosecuted by the US and NATO over the past eight months.
The destruction of Sirte
By Patrick O’Connor, October 19, 2011
The atrocities now being committed in Sirte arise directly out of the nature and aims of the neo-colonial intervention itself.
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