RAWR!!! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
("we're the good guys, y'know!")
Gaddafi's death breached the law, says Russia
As politicians in Western capitals were taking quiet pleasure in the capture and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, opinions elsewhere were divided.
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Geneva Conventions had been breached with the killing of Colonel Gaddafi.
"We have to lean on facts and international laws," Mr Lavrov said. "They say that a captured participant of an armed conflict should be treated in a certain way. And in any case, a prisoner of war should not be killed."
Russia has been critical of Nato military action in Libya, saying that it has gone well beyond the stated mission of saving civilian life. The main concern for Moscow now is whether the new Libyan authorities will honour contracts signed by the Gaddafi regime. As well as the oil and arms trade, Russian Railways had secured a £2bn contract to construct a railway line between Sirte and Benghazi. Moscow recognised the National Transitional Council as the official government of Libya last month and said it expected all existing contracts to be honoured.
I hope Obama won't think he killed him like what happened to Osama, the rebels most likely killed Gaddafi.
Indeed, the rebels’ military leadership consists largely of members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which is still prominently featured on our official list of designated terrorist organizations. Now we are allied with them — under a new name, the “National Transitional Council” – and US taxpayer dollars are pouring into their coffers. That money will be used to consolidate the rebels’ rule, a regime that promises to be every bit as repressive as the one that preceded it – albeit friendly, at least at first, to its Western sponsors.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/20/moammar-gadhafi-r-i-p/
Debate the topic, not insult the poster :angels: Anyway, it's a crazy world we live in. My post is just an Inconvenient Truth.outstanding post zdenka, keep up the good work and might just replace the worm as the most retarded member on the board!
your post is an example of what happens to people's brains when they breath through their mouth most of the time
He was caught on video ALIVE.
DEAD a short while later.
We 'supported' regime change (that's illegal, btw) because Gaddafi was some brutal dictator? When do we invade Saudi Arabia? They are above and beyond Libya's totality.....
TRIPOLI, Libya - Dec. 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- According to Phoenicia Group (www.phoenicia-group.net), a U.S.-Libyan diversified business firm and consultancy group, Libyan officials have earmarked a record $40 Billion for a nation-wide infrastructure and housing program to revamp a decaying public infrastructure caused by years of sanctions; a subtle green light to U.S. and international engineering and construction companies to establish a stake in the construction boom set to explode in the coming years.
The ambitious program, announced at a specialized exhibition and conference in Tripoli last week, will allocate approximately $13 Billion to housing, $10.5 Billion to infrastructure, and $4 Billion to local regions, promising to transform the country and giving a welcome face-lift to long-standing public eye-sores like potted streets and unkempt facades, according to Ryad Sunusi, a prominent U.S. educated businessman and consultant and President & CEO of the privately-held Phoenicia Group, which has substantial interests in the construction, engineering, and oil services sector in Libya.
Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.
People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
How does Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell.
The country is likely to pay a high price for the conflict, which has effectively paralysed the economy and led to a near halt of Libya’s oil production. With considerable oil revenues, a relatively small population and redistributive policies including an extensive social welfare system and subsidies for basic goods, Libya was enjoying the third highest Gross National Income (GNI) per capita and the highest human development index (HDI) in Africa. In 2010 the country was also enjoying a robust growth of around 7.4% and exhibited a high growth trajectory until the conflict erupted. The government had announced plans to increase oil production capacity to 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2015, but oil production and sales have been almost brought to a halt by the political unrest. At the time of writing this report, and despite the persistence of uncertainty, GDP is expected to decline by a double digit figure in 2011, but to recover again sharply in 2012, assuming the political situation stabilizes.
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And your post is a prime example of what happens when you become a bitter, hateful, sour human being.
the only thing to be gained from him living was to tell some inconvenient truths about global economics
Yikes, an e-stalker with a grudge.