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War Crime: NATO Deliberately Destroyed Libya's Water Infrastructure
The Ecologist | Report ^ | Saturday, 30 May 2015 | By Nafeez Ahmed,

Posted on 05/30/2015 12:58:58 PM PDT by bob_denard

The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.

Numerous reports comment on the water crisis that is escalating across Libya as consumption outpaces production. Some have noted the environmental context in regional water scarcity due to climate change.

But what they ignore is the fact that the complex national irrigation system that had been carefully built and maintained over decades to overcome this problem was targeted and disrupted by NATO.

During the 2011 military invasion, press reports surfaced, mostly citing pro-rebel sources, claiming that pro-Gaddafi loyalists had shut down the water supply system as a mechanism to win the war and punish civilians.

(Excerpt) Read more at truth-out.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Egypt; Russia; Syria; US: South Carolina; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/30/2015 12:58:58 PM PDT by bob_denard
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To: bob_denard

And Bill Clinton’s terror bombing of Serbia wasn’t a war crime?


2 posted on 05/30/2015 1:00:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bob_denard

Well, but Obama had to help the terrorists. Never mind that it was the wrong war fought on the wrong side and never legally declared.


3 posted on 05/30/2015 1:02:49 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bob_denard

Add that to Hillary and Barry’s list: assassinated leader of country, loot gold from their central bank, turn control of Libyas oil over to God knows who, create a failed state, promote jihad, leave Americans to be murdered - and blame it all on a video


4 posted on 05/30/2015 1:03:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

“And Bill Clinton’s terror bombing of Serbia wasn’t a war crime?”

What has Bill Clinton got to do with this story?


5 posted on 05/30/2015 1:03:35 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: PGR88

what a sick bunch. and to think she even has the audacity to run for president.
she should be bunkered up somewhere trying to avoid prison .


6 posted on 05/30/2015 1:08:10 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: bob_denard

Does this mean to say that the Libians and or terrorists don’t have the know-how or will to repair their own infrastructure?


7 posted on 05/30/2015 1:08:28 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: dljordan
"What has Bill Clinton got to do with this story?"

Bill is married to Hillary who appears to be running for the presidency? They both share the same last name? They both share a total disregard for the law, truth, morality, etc... Their failed criminal policies cost innocent people their lives.

How's that for starters?

8 posted on 05/30/2015 1:09:13 PM PDT by semaj (.People get ready, Jesus is coming!)
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To: bob_denard

The USA does this right off the bat. Also electric grid. #1 it knocks them out, #2 it provides a (campaign contributor) contractor job to replace it after the war.

But that only “works” when we win it.

Damn right Clinton did it and so did GHW Bush

It really POs me whenever we do this crap


9 posted on 05/30/2015 1:10:17 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: bob_denard

NATO is just as big a disaster as the UN.


10 posted on 05/30/2015 1:11:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: dljordan

He was the last President prior to Obama — who openly sided with the Muslim jihad against the Christian world.

Islam’s war against civilization was well under way when Clinton bombed civilian bridges, power plants and commuter trains in Serbia. The war continues to this day thanks in no small part due to Clinton’s unwillingness to pursue the forces behind the attack on the World Trade Center — the 1993 attack — and his negligence in failing to enforce the terms of the cease fire which ended the First Gulf War.

His notorious “wife” has bloodied her hands yet again, this time in the corpses of Americans abandoned to die in Benghazi, and the global chaos which grew exponentially during her time of drunken stupor as “Secretary of State”


11 posted on 05/30/2015 1:13:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bob_denard
Will somebody please remind me...what was the national security threat that caused the US to bomb Libya and remove Gaddafi?

Because all I can remember is the US interfering in an internal conflict. But that can't be right...a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president would never authorize such a thing.

12 posted on 05/30/2015 1:15:45 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: bob_denard

Civilian infrastructure.

Kinda like the twin towers in NYC.


13 posted on 05/30/2015 1:19:27 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: bob_denard

Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.

NATO, Europe, The West, Christian’s fault.

Hey! How about those two Armies fighting back and forth? Maybe you (Libya) could get some help if you curbed the hate.


14 posted on 05/30/2015 1:22:10 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Leaning Right
And most of the claims of internal strife turned out to be hyped up propaganda. Blasting Libya to pieces and leaving them to the terrorist wolves seems like a bigger war crime than destroying the water infrastructure but...

...at this point, what difference does it make?

We came, we saw, we messed 'em up good!

15 posted on 05/30/2015 1:24:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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To: dljordan

Bill Clinton knows Jerry Brown. Jerry is responsible for the destruction of the California water system. Therefore California must be Libya.


16 posted on 05/30/2015 1:29:07 PM PDT by Domangart
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17 posted on 05/30/2015 1:35:53 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: bob_denard

fl


18 posted on 05/30/2015 1:47:57 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: BenLurkin

are you defending O’bummer?

Or

If you want to discuss the Clinton’s crimes - start a new thread? or dozens - there’s enough to cover without diverting the subject of this thread?...


19 posted on 05/30/2015 1:50:26 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: bob_denard

Wrong target. Bomb the people till they decide to fight for their right to breath free air.


20 posted on 05/30/2015 1:51:02 PM PDT by Tac Double Tap (I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)
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