Libya: Next Stop Genocide?

GADDAFI TELLS BENGHAZI RESIDENTS 'WE ARE COMING TONIGHT'; 'THERE WON'T BE ANY MERCY'...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has warned Libyan rebels in their stronghold of Benghazi that his forces will attack tonight and there would be no mercy for those who fight them.

In a radio address, the Libyan leader told residents in the country's second city that unarmed people have nothing to fear from the army, but every home will be searched.


Col Gaddafi promised to pardon rebels there who surrender, saying his forces would not pursue those who drop their weapons and flee when government troops reach the city.

But he said "for those who resist there will be no mercy or compassion" and vowed to also reclaim the rest of the opposition-held east of the country.

He said his soldiers would rescue the Benghazi people "from traitors" and warned them not to support the rebels.

It comes as his forces reportedly carried out air strikes on the outskirts of the city, which is home to a million people and was where the uprising began a month ago.

Libyan rebels are battling pro-Gaddafi forces in Ajdabiyah

Residents and rebels said there were at least three raids, including at the airport and another one further south.
The Libyan army has said it would halt its operations on Sunday to give the opposition fighters a chance to surrender, Al Arabiya television reported.

But a rebel spokesman in the western city of Misratah, 130 miles from the capital Tripoli, said anti-Gaddafi forces could not trust any truce offer from the regime.

He said: "He (Gaddafi) will not allow anybody to leave peacefully and we do not want to leave. We will die on the battlefield."

It comes as the United Nations will vote tonight on whether to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

The Libyan defence ministry warned any foreign attack on Libya will endanger air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean basin.

And it would expose the area to both short and long term risks, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, anti-Gaddafi forces say they are pushing back government troops in the eastern town of Ajdabiyah, despite claims on Libyan state television that the territory is now under government control.

But with phone lines down, and Sky News’ contacts in Ajdabiyah unreachable, there is no way of confirming the claims of either side.

The town of almost 140,000 people is the final obstacle preventing Gaddafi's forces sweeping across the last remaining rebel territory to the east.

Obama's Mystery Links to Qaddafi Uncovered

As pressure mounts on the White House to intervene to stop Moammar Gadhafi's bloody crackdown in Libya, many commentators have been wondering why Barack Obama has been cautious in his criticism of the dictator after the U.S. president so fervently supported the removal from office of U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

But Gadhafi has been tied to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's spiritual adviser for more than 23 years.
The Libyan dictator also has financed and strongly supported the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Obama has ties to Farrakhan and his controversial group.  

Read more at wnd.com.

 I don't know about you, but I've been wondering at Obama's negligence, not only in the Libya situation, but in Japan as well. 


One wonders if there could be more to it. Could it be that President Obama approaches his Presidency not as a chance to lead the nation, but as an opportunity to settle all scores?

Experience of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia varied considerably, depending upon where one lived and one's social position. Many who lived in areas considered important to the war effort experienced torture, sex slavery, arbitrary arrest and execution, and other war crimes. Many thousands of people were taken away from Indonesia as unfree labour (romusha) for Japanese military projects, including the Burma-Siam Railway, and suffered or died as a result of ill-treatment and starvation. People of Dutch and mixed Dutch-Indonesian descent were particular targets of the Japanese occupation and were interned.

During the World War II occupation, tens of thousands of Indonesians were to starve, work as slave labourers, or be forced from their homes. In the National Revolution that followed, tens, even hundreds, of thousands (including civilians), would die in fighting against the Japanese, Allied forces, and other Indonesians, before Independence was achieved.^[15] A later United Nations report stated that four million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labor during the Japanese occupation, including 30,000 European civilian internee deaths.^[16]

 There is something seriously wrong with our President and his absolute non-reaction to the suffering in Libya and Japan. In fact, he is not merely not reacting, he seems to be openly thumbing his nose at the entire world of people who wait for America to do something, anything.

Yesterday, Barack Obama actually called for College Basketball fans to think about Japan while they are filling out their "brackets"

One thing I wanted to make sure that viewers who are filling out their brackets, you know, this is a great tradition, we have fun every year doing it. But while you’re doing it, if you’re on your laptop, et cetera, go to usaid.gov — U-S-A-I-D dot G-O-V — and that’s going to list a whole range of charities where you can potentially contribute to help the people who have been devastated in Japan. I think that would be a great gesture as you’re filling out your brackets. It can help out some people who are really going through a tough time.

Charity is a good idea, no doubt, but this is yet another example of Obama's seeming inability to take anything seriously.

I used to believe he was just callous, but with the dithering and the fiddling he is doing while the world burns around him, I am beginning to believe this behavior is done on purpose and for effect.

What message he is trying to send, I am not sure.