Libyan foreign ministry officials have described the Rome Contact group meeting of May 5, 2011 as "piracy on the high seas." The meeting pledged $300mln to the counter-revolutionaries that are backed by the imperialists., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Lizzie Phelan
Why the lie? Of course today is the day that former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered and there has been increasing attention since a Human Rights Watch report that detailed the war crimes that were not just committed against Gaddafi but also against scores of others who were in his convoy. While last year, the western corporate media and NATO government’s celebrated these crimes and held them up as evidence Libya had been “liberated”, 12 months on it is becoming harder to continue maintaining that claim in the face of the clear catastrophe that has been unleashed in the country since then.
Claims of such an arrest distract from the inevitable “looking back on Libya one year on”, questions.
At the same time, this lie also serves the purpose of boosting the morale of rabidly anti-Gaddafi factions, like some militias from Misrata who were at the forefront of committing the aforementioned crimes and in enforcing the recent siege and shelling of Bani Walid, a city to the south east of Tripoli. Over recent days opponents to Misrata militias have reported that the latter has faced increasingly stiff resistance from the main tribe of Bani Walid, the werfalla, and their allies.
Perhaps time for the western corporate media to insert a few more “allegedlys” in their reports whose only source is their Libyan government media darlings?
Finally there has never been any basis announced for the arrest of Dr Ibrahim. The fact that the government have a desire to arrest him is just yet another example of how in today’s Libya, anyone who doesn’t toe the line, is persecuted.
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