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by Cem Ertr
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 at 4:53 PM
cem.ertur@gmail.com
The sheer euphoria of the entire British press over President Muammar Gaddafi's savage assassination by NATO's mercenaries on the 8th month of the genocidal invasion of Libya betrayed an absolute moral bankruptcy of the predatory imperialist alliance of NATO countries, Arab monarchies and Israel.
Flashback
to 2011: British press glorifies savage assassination of President
Gaddafi by NATO's mercenaries
compiled by Cem Ertür
22 October 2015
The sheer euphoria of the
entire British press over President Muammar Gaddafi's savage
assassination by NATO's mercenaries on the 8th month of the genocidal
invasion of Libya betrayed an absolute moral bankruptcy of the
predatory imperialist alliance of NATO countries,
Arab monarchies and Israel.

Daily Telegraph, 21 October 2011

The Guardian, 21 October 2011

The Herald, 21 October 2011

The Scotsman, 21 October 2011

The Sun, 21 October 2011

The Independent, 21 October 2011

The Times, 21 October 2011

Metro, 21 October 2011

Daily Mirror, 21 October 2011

Daily Mail, 21 October 2011
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[emphasis added]
“Today, the government of
Libya announced the death of Muammar Qaddafi. [...] Today, we
can definitively say that the Qaddafi regime has come to an end. [...]
So this is a
momentous day in the history of Libya. [...]
Our brave pilots have flown in Libya’s skies, our sailors have provided
support off Libya’s shores, and our leadership at NATO has helped guide
our coalition. Without
putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our
objectives, and our NATO mission will soon come to an end.
This comes at a time when we see the strength of American leadership
across the world. We’ve taken out al Qaeda leaders, and we’ve put them
on the path to defeat. We’re winding down the war in Iraq and have
begun a transition in Afghanistan. And now, working in Libya with
friends and allies, we’ve demonstrated what collective action can
achieve in the 21st century.”
[U.S. President Barack
Obama's speech on the day Libya’s President Muammar Gaddafi
got assassinated by NATO's mercenaries, The White House,
Washington D.C., 20 October 2011]
source: Remarks
by the President on the Death of Muammar Qaddafi, The White
House (offical website of the U.S. government), 20 October 2011
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Flashback to November
2011:
[emphasis added]
“ ‘I will fight
to the death’ says Bashar Assad. (*) For God’s sake, against
whom are you fighting? Fighting to the death against your own people is
not heroism but cowardice.
If you want to see someone who has fought to the death against his own
people, just look at the Nazi Germany, at Hitler, at Mussolini, at
Romania’s Ceausescu.
If you can’t draw any
lesson from [the fates of] these [leaders], then look at Libya’s leader
who has been pointing gun at his own people, who has been making
exactly the same remarks as you are making and who [ended up getting]
killed, in a way none of us would desire, only 32 days ago.
Bashar Assad, if you are talking about fighting to the death against a
[foreign] intervention on your territory, then this begs the question
as to why you haven’t fought to the death for [recapturing] the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights? Why didn't you show your bravery there,
why can't you show it? ”
[Turkey’s Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speech at the parliamentary group meeting of his
Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey’s parliament, Ankara, 22
November 2011]
source: 'Halkinla
savasmak kahramanlik degildir Esad', Yeni Safak, 22 November
2011
(*) editorial
note: Mr Erdogan is referring to a recent
interview of Syria’s President Bashar Assad with The Sunday Times.
Instead of providing a proper transcript of this interview, The Sunday
Times presented it as a news report. Here is the relevant section:
[Assad] was more
preoccupied with the question of whether Arab leaders sympathetic to
the West were preparing the way for international intervention, as they
had in Libya. Turkey was reported to be considering proposals for a
no-fly zone and a buffer area on the Syrian side of their shared border
to protect civilians from bombing. Suspicion is mounting that some form
of military action against Syria may follow. If so, would he fight and
die, I asked. “Definitely, this goes without saying and is an
absolute.” [Assad replied].
source: Strike
Syria and the world will shake, by Hala Jaber, The
Sunday Times via presidentassad.net, 20 November 2011
______________________________
Flashback to March 2011:

Metro, 22 March 2011
Note: This front page
was published on the third day of the NATO-led invasion of
Libya.
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Related:
Flashback to 2011: Libya's “liberators” Sarkozy, Cameron and Erdogan
congratulate NATO's mercenary-terrorists
compiled by Cem Ertür, Indybay, 19 September 2015
The
Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the
Media Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities” - The Lynching of
Mouamar Gaddafi
by Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay, Global Research, 13 April 2013
(originally published in French
on November 18, 2011)
“End of a tyrant”: The Independent and The Guardian jubilant over the
assassination of Libya’s deposed President Gaddafi
compiled by Cem Ertür, Indybay, 21 October 2011
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www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/22/18779164.php
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