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.
One has to wonder..if peregrine Obama would have launched air strikes against the defenders of Rorke’s Drift in support of the Zulus..
YES!! I wonder if the “innocent” people we are protecting are the relatives of the terrorists who have made it their mission in life to KILL our troops!!!!
(Q1) How did the Libyan revolt of 2011 come into being?
(A1) Relatives of Islamists killed in a prison revolt (imprisoned after a rebellion and an assassination attempt on Gaddafi in 1996) staged demonstrations against Gaddafi. (200 prison guards were killed in the revolt).
Obama: Diplomacy? Dignified exit? Never! Unconditional surrender. We’ll protect the innocent Arabs of Libya from the evil Arabs of Libya’s genocidal attacks, even if we have to kill every Arab in Libya. Only then can we stabilize the region and prevent a humanitarian crisis. Maybe now those accursed Americans will start liking me. Am I a trigger-happy cowboy yet? Huh? Huh? Am I? Am I? Am I?
What have they done to that picture? How have they got it to look like that?
Bout time someone started doing a civilian body count. And just wait if any Christians are still arounds, You Tube aka google will have the murders deleted faster that you can press “print screen.”
LOL
This is exactly what Obama said we were doing in “Pok-ee-ston” during the campaign, except he called it “strafing civilians”. What goes arouund, comes around, doesn’t it.?
As they are so fond of saying, there are no civilians. Cuts both ways.
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