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At Least 40 Civilians Dead In Tripoli Strikes: Vatican Official
Reuters ^ | 31 Mar 2011 | Reuters

Posted on 03/31/2011 6:17:26 AM PDT by edpc

ROME (Reuters) - At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses.

"The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli," said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli.

"I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people," he told Fides, the news agency of the Vatican missionary arm.

Libyan officials have taken foreign reporters to the sites of what they say were the aftermath of Western air strikes on Tripoli but evidence of civilian casualties has been inconclusive.

(Excerpt) Read more at au.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; blood4oil; chickenhawk; libya; nato; obamachickenhawk; obamasfault; odysseydawn; qadaffi
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Western powers say they have no confirmed evidence of civilian casualties from air strikes....

Repub pres = massacre. Dem president = no confirmed evidence. I'm sure Peter Arnett is going to get right on this.....

1 posted on 03/31/2011 6:17:29 AM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

Sounds like a good start.


2 posted on 03/31/2011 6:18:53 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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Oh, but it’s different now. These people were happy to die for the Great Obama and his Magic Ummah.


3 posted on 03/31/2011 6:19:00 AM PDT by livius
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To: edpc

which cemetery did they drag the bodies out of?


4 posted on 03/31/2011 6:19:26 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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To: edpc

Obama hates Arabs should be the new mantra, then, right?


5 posted on 03/31/2011 6:20:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: edpc

War criminal president!

Libya was not involved in 9/11!

Give the UN inspectors a chance!

(I’m sure there are many many more lefty arguments from Iraq we can use here)


6 posted on 03/31/2011 6:21:18 AM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: edpc

Cue ‘Green Helmet”, the “Baby Milk Factory” etc.


7 posted on 03/31/2011 6:21:47 AM PDT by AU72
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Cue ‘Green Helmet”, the “Baby Milk Factory” etc.


8 posted on 03/31/2011 6:22:19 AM PDT by AU72
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To: icwhatudo

An almost endless supply.


9 posted on 03/31/2011 6:22:37 AM PDT by edpc (Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
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In wars, civilians unfortunately are killed. We don’t fight battles with European 18th Century field tactics - unfortuantely.

But when you balance the number of civilians killed in stopping Khadaffy’s forces with those who would be killed if they were not, its a no-brainer, unless, of course, one is a pacifist, as apaprently the Catholic Church hierarchy, or at least some of it, has become, joining too many of their Protestatn bretheren.

Too bad the Catholic CHurch lacks a modern day Pope Urban II.


10 posted on 03/31/2011 6:25:33 AM PDT by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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Martinelli said living conditions in the Libyan capital were getting more difficult by the day, while on the ground a military stalemate appeared to be taking hold.

"That is why I say that a diplomatic solution is the principal way to put an end to the spilling of blood among Libyans, offering Gaddafi a dignified exit," he said.

Not going to make Bishop Martinelli very popular with Muammar!

11 posted on 03/31/2011 6:26:58 AM PDT by iowamark
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Somethng is not right. Where are the pictures?


12 posted on 03/31/2011 6:27:26 AM PDT by Doofer
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I don’t deny there will be civilian casualties in any conflict. However, my point is the Left made every incident a war crime under Bush. This will probably not get a passing mention from them.


13 posted on 03/31/2011 6:28:25 AM PDT by edpc (Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
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To: edpc

Barry Sotero lied...people died.


14 posted on 03/31/2011 6:28:58 AM PDT by skimask
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“Obama lied, people died!!!!”

15 posted on 03/31/2011 6:29:52 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Doofer

To be consistent, pictures must include a disney stuffed animal or barbie doll in the rubble.


16 posted on 03/31/2011 6:30:47 AM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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Obama Lied, Women and Children Died!

How's it feel now Obama?

17 posted on 03/31/2011 6:31:27 AM PDT by tobyhill
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You won’t hear the libs using the word “Chickenhawk” either. Remember the are the reality based ones.


18 posted on 03/31/2011 6:32:49 AM PDT by skimask
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I’m convinced. Get our troops out of there today.


19 posted on 03/31/2011 6:32:53 AM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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I just got up. Is Fox News throwing up those blazing "NEWS ALERT" graphics on this Obama slaughter every 5 minutes like they do when someone's cat is stranded up a tree?

Leni

20 posted on 03/31/2011 6:34:19 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Obama....you'll have to pry my incandescent lightbulbs from my cold, dead fingers!)
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