Have You Ever Seen A Tank On Top Of An Airplane: Video Of Libyan Airport After Days Of Fighting
Video - Feb. 28, 2011 - Text below is from RT
Amateur video emerged on Monday purporting to show the aftermath of a skirmish that happened late last week between troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and rebel forces at Misrata airport. The video accessed via Youtube is thought to have been filmed over the weekend and there is no means of independently verifying it's date and authenticity. Fighting took place between Gadhafi loyalists and rebels at Misrata, Libya's third largest city 125 miles (200 kilometres) east of Tripoli, on Friday, according to residents. Each side now controls part of a sprawling air base on the outskirts of the city, and neither was able to make any gains in the latest sporadic fighting, they said. The footage shows buildings damaged by gunfire, while spent bullet shells and debris litter the runway. Also seen is a tank perched on top of a small airplane, used for training purposes. On Monday, clashes continued in Misrata.
Mar 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM
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If RIA Novosti's update on the Middle East escalation is correct, the Middle East's worst kept secret, that Saudi Arabia would interfere militarily in Bahrain before the country fell, has just been confirmed. From RIA: "Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses reported seeing "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each heading towards Bahrain" along the 25-km King Fahd causeway, which links the small island nation of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia." And while nobody expects the DXY to do much if anything on this news, now that the dollar is irrelevant in the FX realm, the same can not be said about silver. Silver just hit $34.43 minutes ago, the highest print in the last 31 years.
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_asia/2011-02-28/u-s-south-korea-joint-military-drills-begin.html
Now this development.....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-allows-Pakistani-team-access-to-26/11-witnesses/articleshow/7602460.cms
by:
Dave Lindorff
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/487
by Stephen Lendman
Thursday Mar 3rd, 2011 1:55 AM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/03/18673696.php
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He's now is prison awaiting trial unless pressure or a deal gets him released. So far, Washington refuses one for Siddiqui. Pakistan wants her in exchange. Both sides are firm. Whether one blinks remains to be seen.
Meanwhile Aafia languishes isolated at FMC Carswell, a federal prison some call "CarsHELL." Her nightmarish ordeal continues, following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture and witch-hunt prosecution, resulting in an 86-year sentence, despite no evidence whatever of guilt. In contrast, Davis is a covert spy, caught red-handed committing two cold-blooded murders. If he's freed but not Aafia, justice is more than ever blind. It's already corrupted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbvz2mTUDWA
Flashback:
http://maravi.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-research-chloes-blood-diamond.html
Even the Nazi's atrocities pale in compare here. Long running crimes against humanity and war crimes must now be addressed.
That report about Israel might be a lie or just speculation. There is a Press TV report (Tehran propaganda) and an Israeli Hebrew news site that only refers to Libyan "opposition sources." I don't see any confirmation of this anywhere else. NOW, that doesn't mean it isn't true, and certainly no one would be surprised if it were true, but it could be misinformation (or disinformation).
Remember when Erik Prince skipped town and started his new venture(s) in Abu Dhabi. He has place emphasis in the african theatre.....
http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2011/01/blackwater-founder-is-said-to-back.html
According to this and other sources, Mr.Prince put up the money to start a venture called Saracen International.
http://wardheernews.com/Articles_2010/Dec/Biyokulule/28_Marauding_Saracen.html
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In 1996, the Human Rights Watch report names Saracen International, as suspected Executive Outcomes front company. And Executive Outcomes is far more than a private security firm; it is a group of mercenaries that employs intelligence experts and a range of code-named “technical” staff. Within a very short period of time, it had generated over dozen subsidiary companies throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20101231064831zzzz.nb/topstory.html
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Saracen International is a complex web of businesses that sell luxury real estates properties as well as international investment opportunities. It is also the sanitized and the newly improved version of the now defunct Executive Outcomes. The latter has a broad record in Angola, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. They were guns for hire; a private army to perform variety of "good" and "dirty jobs" necessary enforces peace or silence dissent.
More on this company here: http://www.warisbusiness.com/category/research/
Look at where the offices are located.
and also the warisbusiness webite has a wealth of information regarding other contractors.
If no one else has put those pieces together, you should take a stab at it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110202165.html
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"We're not a private detective," Black said. "We provide intelligence to our clients. It's not about taking pictures. It's business intelligence. We collect all information that's publicly available. This is a completely legal enterprise. We break no laws. We don't go anywhere near breaking laws. We don't have to."
A handful of analysts in their 20s and 30s sit hunched over Macintosh computers, scanning Web sites, databases, newspapers and chat rooms. The lights are dimmed. Three large-screen TVs play in the background, one tuned to al-Jazeera.
Devost runs day-to-day operations, overseeing 65 full-time employees. At the Global Fusion Center, young analysts monitor activities in more than 60 countries. They include a 25-year-old Fulbright scholar fluent in Arabic and another person with a master's degree in international affairs, focused on the Middle East, who tracks the oil industry and security in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/06/kerry-denies-libyan-no-fly-zone-would-be-military-intervention/
http://www.chrisrussellconsulting.com/news/index.php?ID=45
Daniel Jester 32, Democrat
As a media supervisor with GMMB, a D.C.-based political media firm, Daniel Jester served as Sen. John Kerry's lead media-buying strategist during his 2004 presidential bid. Most recently, he directed Sen. Barack Obama's general market media buys. "So far, my most gratifying professional experience has been working with such an incredibly well-run presidential campaign for one of the most inspirational candidates that we've ever seen," Jester says. "And it comes at a time when we need hope and excitement in our politics." Jester, who was the first person in his family to attend college, grew up in southern Delaware, which he describes as having "many more chickens than people." Jester's clients include A-listers like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Montana Sen. Max Baucus and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/08/c_13767423.htm
Car bomb kills at least 24 at Pakistan fuel station
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-blast-20110309,0,5866175.story
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The explosion in Faisalabad, Pakistan, appears to have targeted offices of Pakistan's intelligence agency. More than 90 people are injured.