Posted on 03/26/2011 8:33:59 AM PDT by Cardhu
A shocking scene occurred in Tripoli on Saturday when a gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials.
A visibly very distressed woman burst into the breakfast room of the hotel where we are staying and attempted to speak out about an ordeal at the hands of Gaddafi supporters.
As correspondents here in Tripoli under the supervision of the Libyan government, we are not allowed to move around freely.
However, it has become apparent to those in the city that there are a clutch of journalists in two hotels.
We were having breakfast in our hotel when the woman broke in and said she'd been picked up at a checkpoint in the city.
As correspondents here in Tripoli under the supervision of the Libyan government, we are not allowed to move around freely.
However, it has become apparent to those in the city that there are a clutch of journalists in two hotels.
We were having breakfast in our hotel when the woman broke in and said she'd been picked up at a checkpoint in the city.
The woman was gagged by hand and taken away by minders
She claimed she had been held for two days, and that she had been raped and tortured.
The woman showed marks on her body which she said she had received as a result of beatings by the people who were holding her, Gaddafi supporters.
She showed marks on her legs and on her wrists, which she suggested came from handcuffs.
In a state of great distress, she said she had suffered this beating because she was from Benghazi, the city where the uprising began in the east of the country.
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As journalists tried to speak to her, things got out of control and the police minders waded in, trying to physically shut her up and stop her talking.
Hers is not the voice they want heard in this country. In the commotion a gun was pointed towards the Sky News team in an attempt to stop them filming.
Moslims being Moslim.
And she knew they were daffy supporters because they had signs in printed in english around their necks saying so. The good Iranian trained doctors is playing all the cards. Where are those 25 dead school girls.
Yup. Animals fighting animals.
Why would one choose to believe this story over anything coming out of the Al Queda supported rebels?
This is a civil war and the first thing lost is the truth. We don’t even know who we are fighting for or with.
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The terrorists are quite aware that the news media are always ready to propagandize for the wrong side.
Which is the wrong side? Whichever one the progressive Democrats are supporting. It’s not hard to tell.
How about all those black Africans given jobs by Kaddafi who have been thrown out of those jobs and forced to flee into the desert by these “protestors.” Don’t they have any sympathy for them? Aren’t their favored “protestors” being just a teensy bit racist here?
Didn't the same type of thing just happen in a Burger King in Florida???
"An angry spring breaker made a whopper of a statement when she sparked a riot inside a Florida Burger King over the weekend."
If she was raped in Tripoli by soldiers, they would obviously be Qadafi supporters. The real question is, did it really happen? I would bet that the answer is yes. It’s not like these things don’t happen in war, and things are spiraling out of control in Libya, which will make them even more commonplace as society breaks down. Also, if this woman wasn’t raped before, she is probably having even worse done to her now. Very sad.
Stagged, the whole thing was staged, show for the press.
A lot of American women and men voted for islam like this in 2008.
Al Jazeera is now reporting that she is a member of the Obeidat tribe and a relative of Abdul Fattah Younis al-Obeidi, former Gaddafi’s #2, who defected and is now anti-Gaddafi and an important member of the Revolutionary Council in Benghazi.
Perhaps that is why she was raped.
What does this refer to? The burning girls' school in S.A., maybe?
Is it awful to say what I feel, which is: I do not give a shit about a single one of these Libyan animals. Not Gadaffi, not the rebel, not this female.
Don’t know the good doctor, for the AQ brotherhood, claim that dafflys tanks had killed 25 young girls a few days ago, but no one ever saw the bodies. Probably the one claiming to be a doctor and the former prison of war AQ member are one and the same.
The female is the only one worthy of our concern. Remember, in that culture they are little more than property.
Sorry, but I am all out of sympathy for foreign females. It ran out after the whole "girls can finally go to school...women can finally be doctors in Afghanistan! And it only cost $100 billion!!!" I would rather they still be in burqas and the U.S. use those funds to build an Israeli-style border wall with Mexico. I care a lot more about AZ ranchers like the murdered Robert Krentz than I do about honor killings in Kabul. I care more about DOMESTIC females, like my teenage niece, who was rejected for a job at Chipotle because did "didn't speak Spanish", because of illegal aliens. F**k Afghanistans. F**k Libyans. F**k 'em all. We are $15 trillion in the hole. America for Americans.
Possible, but can you imagine what is happening to her now? I doubt it. Just look at how the Libyans reacted to it. Punching reporters, breaking cameras, pointing guns, brandishing butter-knives.
I’m with you on everything you said. Bravo.
Muslim men still keep slaves/women.
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