Posted on 03/31/2011 10:22:59 AM PDT by 11th_VA
At least 40 civilians have been killed in airstrikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday citing witnesses.
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 neighbourhoods 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 neighbourhood, 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.
"It's true that the bombardments seem pretty much on target, but it is also true that when they hit military targets, which are in the middle of civilian neighbourhoods, the population is also involved," Martinelli said.
"Yesterday I said that bombardments had hit, albeit indirectly, some hospitals. To be precise, one of these hospitals is in Mizda," he said, mentioning a town about 145 km (90 miles) southwest of the capital.
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.
Western powers deny reports of civilian casualties.
Quadaffi has murdered all the innocent people in Libya years ago...
nah, you have to protect ‘the one’....idiot.
LOL...this was as inevitable as deficit spending in Washington.
This is starting to look like “burning the village to save the village” all over again ...
A breakout of the hometowns of Libyan jihadists who showed up in Iraq:
Note that the 84% of the jihadists came from Darnah and Benghazi, both rebel strongholds that were (as pointed out in the West Point study) previously the scene of Islamist uprisings in the mid-1990's.
This could be mis-information but then I never believed we belonged there lobbing shells at ANYONE in Libya.
One two three four we don’t want your stinking war. Barry lied children died.
Its the best place for them to be, what with all of this unhelpful news lately.
bttt
Soon we will be hearing Obama explain that this is the military he inherited.
< /rhetorical question>
Where’s the pie piece marked “Tehran?”
I won’t believe it until I see a picture with ‘Green Helmet Guy.’
But Iran should be on that jihadist chart...we've seen more of that scum's "presents" in Iraq than any of the others.
Interesting.
Were these civilians flying when they were killed?
Obama is a war criminal.
When will he be tried and where?
But.. But...
This is a Kinetic Hypocrisy Action!
Civilian dead no longer matter, because Obama has magically made them INVISIBLE to US-Owned Network TV Cameras!
MSNBC has decided that it’s just too difficult to calculate Libyan civilian casualties, so they won’t be reporting them.
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