{"article":{"id":291808,"heading":"Flashback:UK press glorifies savage assassination of President Gaddafi by NATO mercenaries","author":"Cem Ertr","created":"2015-10-22 23:53:19","modified":"2015-10-22 23:53:19","last_modified":"Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:53:19","article":"
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The sheer euphoria of the\r\nentire British press over President Muammar Gaddafi's savage\r\nassassination by NATO's mercenaries on the 8th month of the genocidal\r\ninvasion of Libya betrayed an absolute moral bankruptcy of the\r\npredatory imperialist alliance of NATO countries,\r\n<\/span>Arab monarchies and Israel.
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\r\nDaily Telegraph, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Guardian, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Herald, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Scotsman, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Sun, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Independent, 21 October 2011
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\r\nThe Times, 21 October 2011
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\r\nMetro, 21 October 2011
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\r\nDaily Mirror, 21 October 2011
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\r\nDaily Mail, 21 October 2011
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“Today, the government of\r\nLibya announced the death of Muammar Qaddafi. [...]  Today, we\r\ncan definitively say that the Qaddafi regime has come to an end. [...]\r\n So this is a\r\nmomentous day in the history of Libya<\/span>. [...]
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\r\nOur brave pilots have flown in Libya’s skies, our sailors have provided\r\nsupport off Libya’s shores, and our leadership at NATO has helped guide\r\nour coalition. Without\r\nputting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our\r\nobjectives<\/span>, and our NATO mission will soon come to an end.
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\r\nThis comes at a time when we see the strength of American leadership\r\nacross the world. We’ve taken out al Qaeda leaders, and we’ve put them\r\non the path to defeat. We’re winding down the war in Iraq and have\r\nbegun a transition in Afghanistan. And now, working in Libya with\r\nfriends and allies, we’ve demonstrated what collective action can\r\nachieve in the 21st century.”
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\r\n[U.S. President Barack\r\nObama's speech on the day Libya’s President Muammar Gaddafi\r\ngot assassinated by NATO's mercenaries, The White House,\r\nWashington D.C., 20 October 2011<\/span>]
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\r\nsource:  Remarks\r\nby the President on the Death of Muammar Qaddafi, The White\r\nHouse (offical website of the U.S. government), 20 October 2011
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\r\nFlashback to November\r\n2011:<\/span>
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“ ‘I will fight\r\nto the death’ says Bashar Assad. (*)  For God’s sake, against\r\nwhom are you fighting? Fighting to the death against your own people is\r\nnot heroism but cowardice.
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\r\nIf you want to see someone who has fought to the death against his own\r\npeople, just look at the Nazi Germany, at Hitler, at Mussolini, at\r\nRomania’s Ceausescu.
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\r\nIf you can’t draw any\r\nlesson from [the fates of] these [leaders], then look at Libya’s leader\r\nwho has been pointing gun at his own people, who has been making\r\nexactly the same remarks as you are making and who [ended up getting]\r\nkilled, in a way none of us would desire, only 32 days ago.<\/span>
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\r\nBashar Assad, if you are talking about fighting to the death against a\r\n[foreign] intervention on your territory, then this begs the question\r\nas to why you haven’t fought to the death for [recapturing] the\r\nIsraeli-occupied Golan Heights? Why didn't you show your bravery there,\r\nwhy can't you show it? ”<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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\r\n[Turkey’s Prime Minister\r\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan, speech at the parliamentary group meeting of his\r\nJustice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey’s parliament, Ankara, 22\r\nNovember 2011<\/span>]  
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\r\nsource:  'Halkinla\r\nsavasmak kahramanlik degildir Esad', Yeni Safak, 22 November\r\n2011
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\r\n(*)  editorial\r\nnote:<\/span>  Mr Erdogan is referring to a recent\r\ninterview of Syria’s President Bashar Assad with The Sunday Times.\r\nInstead of providing a proper transcript of this interview, The Sunday\r\nTimes presented it as a news report. Here is the relevant section:
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[Assad] was more\r\npreoccupied with the question of whether Arab leaders sympathetic to\r\nthe West were preparing the way for international intervention, as they\r\nhad in Libya. Turkey was reported to be considering proposals for a\r\nno-fly zone and a buffer area on the Syrian side of their shared border\r\nto protect civilians from bombing. Suspicion is mounting that some form\r\nof military action against Syria may follow. If so, would he fight and\r\ndie, I asked. “Definitely, this goes without saying and is an\r\nabsolute.” [Assad replied].
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\r\nsource:  Strike\r\nSyria and the world will shake, by Hala Jaber, The\r\nSunday Times via presidentassad.net, 20 November 2011
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\r\nMetro, 22 March 2011
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\r\nNote: This front page\r\nwas published on the third day of the NATO-led invasion of\r\nLibya.<\/span>
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\r\nFlashback to 2011: Libya's “liberators” Sarkozy, Cameron and Erdogan\r\ncongratulate NATO's mercenary-terrorists
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\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür, Indybay, 19 September 2015
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\r\nThe\r\nCult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the\r\nMedia Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities” - The Lynching of\r\nMouamar Gaddafi
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\r\nby Jean-Claude Paye and Tülay Umay, Global Research, 13 April 2013\r\n(originally published in French\r\non November 18, 2011)
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\r\n“End of a tyrant”: The Independent and The Guardian jubilant over the\r\nassassination of Libya’s deposed President Gaddafi
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\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür, Indybay, 21 October 2011
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