Libya: NATO's War Feeds Ugly Violence
Submitted on November 1, 2011
By Tony Iltis - Monday, October 31, 2011
The specific trigger for NATO intervening in March was that the Gaddafi regime was pounding Benghazi with indiscriminate shelling and threatening violent reprisals upon retaking the city...However, since the fall of Tripoli on August 21, this is exactly what NATO and the [National Transitional Council "rebels"] have done to Sirte and other communities where pro-Gaddafi fighters have hung on...Sirte, formerly a city of 100,000 people, “looks today like Ypres in 1915, or Grozny in 1995 after the Russian Army had finished with it...”
