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By Rick Rozoff
How are you today, Mr. Rozoff?
Rather distressed by the news of this morning. Or yesterday morning in your case.
Ok, what is your first impression?
It was a brutal, gratuitous slaying of an almost 70-year-old man, killed after being captured. And if the intent of 216 days of NATO bombing was to kill him in the first place, which is clearly the case, with the multiple bombings of his compound in Tripoli, which in one case killed one of his sons and three grandchildren, it is clearly targeted killing and I suppose NATO can now claim success. It has got what it wanted.
President Barack Obama said that there is going to be a pull-out from Libya very soon, so in your mind does that mean the objective has been met?
Yes, it has entirely. Regime change, take-over of Africa's largest oil reserves, the incorporation of Libya, which hitherto had been the only North African country that was not a member of NATO's so-called Mediterranean Dialogue, into what is now according to Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen a military partnership with the North Atlantic Alliance... So in every sense their objective has been accomplished. It's certainly nothing that is going to benefit the Libyan people.
You don't see this as being justice for the oppressed Libyan people? I mean there are people saying that Gaddafi was a terrible guy. He [...]
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By Rick Rozoff
Rather distressed by the news of this morning. Or yesterday morning in your case.
Ok, what is your first impression?
It was a brutal, gratuitous slaying of an almost 70-year-old man, killed after being captured. And if the intent of 216 days of NATO bombing was to kill him in the first place, which is clearly the case, with the multiple bombings of his compound in Tripoli, which in one case killed one of his sons and three grandchildren, it is clearly targeted killing and I suppose NATO can now claim success. It has got what it wanted.
President Barack Obama said that there is going to be a pull-out from Libya very soon, so in your mind does that mean the objective has been met?
Yes, it has entirely. Regime change, take-over of Africa's largest oil reserves, the incorporation of Libya, which hitherto had been the only North African country that was not a member of NATO's so-called Mediterranean Dialogue, into what is now according to Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen a military partnership with the North Atlantic Alliance... So in every sense their objective has been accomplished. It's certainly nothing that is going to benefit the Libyan people.
You don't see this as being justice for the oppressed Libyan people? I mean there are people saying that Gaddafi was a terrible guy. He [...]
Submit your suggestion / comments / complaints / Takedown request on lookyp.com@gmail.com
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