Posted on 05/01/2011 1:34:42 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MOSCOW -- Russia condemned a NATO airstrike in which Libyan officials claimed a son and three grandchildren of Moammar Gadhafi were killed, saying Sunday the attack was an excessive use of force.
The Foreign Ministry also questioned NATO's assertion that the alliance is not targeting Gadhafi or members of his family.
"Statements by participants in the coalition that the strikes on Libya are not aimed at the physical destruction of ... Gadhafi and members of his family raise serious doubts," a ministry statement said.
It also said the "disproportionate use of force ... is leading to detrimental consequences and the death of innocent civilians." The ministry called for "an immediate cease-fire and the beginning of a political settlement process without preconditions."
In Brussels, NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said the Libyan government's announcement that Gadhafi's relatives were killed in the airstrike late Saturday remained unconfirmed.
"We targeted a military command and control building with a precision strike," she said. "It was not targeted against any individual. It was a military target, clearly linked to the Gadhafi's regime's systematic attacks on the civilian population."
A Russian lawmaker who often serves as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin's views on foreign affairs was less diplomatic.
"More and more facts indicate that the aim of the anti-Libyan coalition is the physical destruction of Gadhafi," Konstantin Kosachyov, who heads the lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, was quoted as saying.
Kosachyov called on Western leaders to make their position on the airstrikes clear.
"I am totally perplexed by the total silence from the presidents of the United States, France, the leaders of other Western countries," Kosachyov said in an interview, according to the Interfax news agency. "We have the right to expect their immediate, comprehensive and objective assessment of the coalition's actions."
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Russia insisted that the recognition of Kosovo independence was a "precedent" to be repeated in Georgia. Did they think invading Georgia would have no consequences?
Russia massacred the Christians of Georgia but they get upset when bombs fall on the heads of their muslim terrorist allies like Kadaffi.
Dang whats a Code Pinker to do!
Basically, Soros and Obunga are trying to perpetrate a bank robbery in broad daylight and using American military assets to do it.
I want to start by saying I neither like or trust Russia on anything much. Russia’s actions in no way justify Nato bombing children, no matter what any of you will say. The same intelligence that gave Quadafi’s location would have known children were there. Of course the death’s would need verified as I don’t trust Lybian sources for anything but if its true and we knew it this is a war crime in my book and makes us no better than the enemy. BTW I am against taking down any government just to hand it over to any Islamic fundamentalists.
We are about to take a beating but I agree with you.
I thought Kadaffi’s adoring fans didn’t want NATO to “stop the killing,” because Kadaffi was killing muslims. Now you are upset because the killing of muslims has only increased? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!
So I take it you’re in favor of removing a secular dictator and installing an Islamic government?
Have you ever heard of a One-Way Street, Joe?
Your hate for Russia runs wide and deep!!, But that has nothing to do with current events. What Russia did Russia did, NATO killing children has to do with Americans. Those are American missiles and bombs killing kids. But then maybe you think all Muslims should be killed, is that your position.
That the Russians are hypocrites does not necessarily make them wrong every time they mouth off. IMO the United States would have been better off politically and morally had Comrade Zero not been allowed to lease the United States military to the Muslim Brotherhood for Libyan - or any other - use.
I HAVE NEVER IN ANY WAY SUGGESTED I WAS A DAFFY FAN A-H-!
I MADE UP MY MIND LONG AGO KILLING KIDS IS WRONG NO MATTER THEIR RELIGION!
A so called ‘rebel’, riding around on a donkey with an AK, didn't do that.
Russia is, of course, right. I just wish they had vetoed the damn thing first, rather than abstaining.
But it probably wouldn’t have mattered in the end, it would have become a NATO mission, just like Bosnia and Kosava.
I am in favor of doing what Imam Obama refuses to do because he doesn't want to upset Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Democrats love to start wars but they just HATE to WIN them.
Your love for Kadaffi runs deep! Maybe you think muslims shouldn’t be killed, is that your position? Only if they do not obey King Kadaffi?
nice sheetrock
looked like reinforced concrete
Not from me you won't.
Zero and Soros are indeed, after Mo's wealth and physical gold, as he is in position to be the IMF replacement for Northern Africa.
Additionally, Europe is after Mo's oil, and the Euro and US Dollar are not going to buy much in the way of commodities especially oil.
Europe now gets about 75% of Libyan oil, and China gets 11%, however, China recently outbid everybody on Libyan oil futures, and in five years China is contracted to receive above 85% of Libya's oil. Plus they pay cash with a stable currency that converts to gold.
With the North Sea oil rapidly going dry, Europe is totally screwed and will have to beg Russia for oil.
That's why Obama and NATO would kill anyone's children, let alone Quadaffy's.
When your enemy is going to hang himself, it is wise to give him as much rope as possible.
The killer is that we should be exporting oil and not importing it.
Well, we should definitely be developing every possible source of US domestic fossil fuels, and seeking to improve the safety, efficiency and minimize environmental impact, keeping national security and energy independence as the irreplaceable FIRST priority.
Then we should use that energy to build an industrial economy that would create EFFICIENT, economical renewable energy technology. No boondoggle loser subsidized crap, no crony capitalistic crap, no Marxist crap.
If we got oil left over, export it.
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