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Gadaffi says European states involved in murder

Sri Lankan News.Net
Friday 16th May, 2008

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach land.

Mr Gadaffi said hundreds of African migrants trying to reach Europe were drowned in overturning operations disguised as fake rescues.

Speaking at a meeting of African trade union leaders in Tripoli, Colonel Gadaffi claimed that 'a war on the Mediterranean Sea is being waged against Africans'.

While the Libyan leader did not specify which countries he was referring to, most of the migrants arrive in Italy, with an estimated 100,000 attempting the crossing each year.

Last year, Libya and Italy signed an agreement to improve cooperation on tackling the dangers to boat migrants.

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Anonymous
05-17-08, 12:07 AM

Gadaffi says European states involved in murder

Question is why are these people all trying to leave africa? i would have thought that al qaeda would have island paradise for all africa?

Anonymous
05-17-08, 06:49 PM

Running to NO Where

First of all, we do not know this is true.. I knw for a fact that some very over crowded boats have sunk for sure.. Second point is that with these islamic extremists creating fear and having no respect for anybody, even if you help them.. well i am sure that countries are not welcoming people with open arms because they may have a bomb strapped to them! And many africans are escaping the violence of these same islamic terrorists in their home countries only to find themselves in poverty in a new country. Pray Musilems stop believing these Mullahs and start trusting in God and find peace in their hearts

Anonymous
05-17-08, 01:39 PM

Well. Can a dead duck swim.

Sky
05-17-08, 02:55 AM

How much more Africa

How much more can people of african origin take from those rouge nations that call themselves developed nations.
Until Africans realize that those people for the most part don’t see them in good light the plight will continue.These nations have decided to make African nations dependent nation more so for nations in sub sahara region. The plot is serve them a dead rodent in a silver plater.
Africans are not monitoring them when they enter Africa as much as they check Africans when the enter their nations. Wake-up Africa and save yourselves you have what it takes without outside intervention.

Sammy
05-17-08, 01:47 AM

There is no human dignity, and no respect for human life in todays's world

These are very serious accusations, that Colonel Gadaffi claims, it creates doubts into people’s minds, is he trying to wage a psychological war based on fear of the un-known, it would be proper to show some basic evidence to sustain his assumptions.

We all know, that these immigrants are not welcomed with open arms in many European countries, and infact they are considered a plague by some countries that are racist oriented, but over-turning their boats so that these people would drown is a last resource that civilized countries would resort to, but then in todays’s world anything can be expected to happen, since many people do not give value to human life, and are without any human dignity, and will do anything for the sake of money, and staying in power.


So Colonel Gadaffi, might have touched a sensitive nerve in his assumptions.

Sammy

jack113
05-17-08, 10:36 AM

LOL Gadaffi calling the pot black.

Gadaffi has never paid for the Lockerbe bombing thanks to Bush calling him his friend.

The African people can’t take much more and have I think been very resilent in their struggle to survive under the conditions that are forced on them from the West.

~galljdaj+
05-17-08, 07:36 AM

Ironic Greed of the 'imperialist'!!!

The cycle of strip minning and skimming!

Hundreds of years now the gREEDY have gone to Africa and took by force the 'Riches' using every possible scheme.

They enhanced themsleves, their countries, but not their responsibilities! Their gREED HAS ONLY INCREASED with the riches stolen!

The gREEDY see those that seek 'relief' from the terrors 'wrought' as somehow 'not worthy'! How righteous! god must be blessing them!

~galljdaj+
05-17-08, 08:01 AM

A Case Study in the Greedy

For some time the US gOVERNMENT has plastered its Greed or support for the Greedy in its attacks on Cuba. What is new is the lil bush new bigger and worse war of greed:

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Escalation of illegal anti-Cuba transmissions condemned

By Roberto Pérez Betancourt—Granma daily—

THE U.S. government has implemented an escalation of its radio/television aggression of Cuba by increasing the vast resources that it has pumped into this interventionist exercise since the early days of the Revolution.

Specialists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) and Informatics and Communications (MIC) presented this condemnation on the Thursday edition of the Cuban radio and TV Informative Roundtable, during which they cited evidence of reiterated violations of international law and an open defiance of the island’s sovereignty.

Declassified documents from the CIA detail U.S. government operations against Cuba via the illegal use of radio broadcasts, they noted.

Carlos Martínez, general director of the MIC, mentioned historical antecedents of these broadcasts and the illicit use of commercial radio stations located in Miami and protected by the U.S. government over the last 50 years, and others specifically created with subversive intentions.

The analysts confirmed that these broadcasting stations transmit a weekly average of 1,889 hours of radio and TV on 30 frequencies and that the United States has incorporated high-cost international and commercial satellite transmissions into its illegal systems.

Martínez noted that 131 counterrevolutionary organizations have broadcast anti-Cuba programs via slots hired from Florida radio stations, and quoted examples of the inaccuracy of their content and the complicity of the U.S. authorities.

The MIC expert spoke of reiterated defeats suffered by the U.S. administration at the hands of international agencies on account of its flagrant legal violations, which are systematically recorded by Cuba as a basis for its exposés of the effects that these have had on national broadcasting services.

The so-called Radio and TV Martí are part of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, founded in 1985 and owned by the U.S. government, the aim of which is to disseminate tendentious information and programs to the island to destabilize its government, confuse the population and incite subversion.

Both projects have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $600 million. In real terms, that money benefits elements of the anti-Cuban mafia who supported the election and subsequent reelection of George W. Bush, and includes congress members of Cuban origin like Lincoln Díaz-Balart.

Although over its 17-plus years of intervention, TV Martí has tested out sophisticated technologies involving aircraft and distinct channels, its signal cannot be received by the island’s televisions, thanks to the effective action of national specialists.

Journalist Reynaldo Taladrid affirmed that those signals form part of a historic project designed by the U.S. government and executed with the collaboration of counterrevolutionary organizations.

The directors and other beneficiaries of the TV Martí budget have unsuccessfully tried to refute the failure of their transmissions to Cuba, and ironically, have received $400,000 per year to pay TV Azteca to include its signal in that station’s regular programs, which has likewise come to nothing.

Other current scandals involve journalists illegally paid by Radio and TV Martí.

In April 2007, José M. Miranda, alias Chema, former program director of TV Martí, was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment and fined $5,000 for having accepted bribes from the Perfect Image & Video company.

That company paid him $112,000 in 73 checks between November 26, 2001 and December 20, 2004, in return for benefits received.

On May 20, 2003, the Bush government began to use the Pentagon C 130 solo command military aircraft to beam the invasive signal.

In that context, Colonel Roque Garrigó of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, explained that this was when the U.S. president declared the beginning of a new escalation in its aggression against Cuba.

He gave details of the strength of the equipment used by that aircraft, with a potential of 10 Kilowatts and a 200-km reach, and added that each current anti-Cuba broadcast costs around $150,000.

Hugo Fernández, a MIC expert, explained that the 2007 World Conference of the UN Telecommunications specialized body stated that Washington’s anti-Cuba broadcasts were illegal.

The forum was attended by delegates from 164 countries, with the United States declining to attend.

Rodolfo Reyes, MINREX director of multilateral affairs, spoke of other condemnations by Cuba in the international sphere, including the UN General Assembly.

He emphasized the general support the island has been given in response to its claims and reaffirmed that, given Washington’s mockery of the condemnations it has received, Cuba will continue defending its sovereignty in all spheres. (AIN)

Translated by Granma International


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05-17-08, 07:42 PM

A murderer is a murderer

Qaddafi’s is now blaming his murder on other nations. Perform an autopsy and biopsy on the dead bodies and the result the will point to the Islamic persecution of political prisoners.


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