The United Kingdom recognizes Libya's rebel umbrella group, not Moammar Gadhafi's regime, as the legitimate government, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.
"We are dealing with them as if they are the state of Libya and that is how we are treating them," Hague said of the Transitional National Council.
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Democracy

"civilized" hahahahahsahshaha The sun faces the seas and the sea shows the sun it's own image!

Democrasy in action. . . . .

So out of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya who has an elected govt?

Silly people - The 'West' are installing their puppets with ease.

Anybody could have warned those fools about the 'West'.

bastard uk govt always dividing us n looking for oil. wait till an igbo man enters aso rock. theyll be so kicked out

Five years down the line when the same ones they recognize now enter their underground with kaboom then they will blame Islam. But the problem is not Islam, the problem European greed. You all see now? Exact same thing USA did in Afhghanistan and Iraq - supporting and empowering a rival against the enemy. They supported and empowered Saddam against Iran and supported mujaheedin against Russia, using Pakistan as the supply route.

When is the world going to see through the deceit?

How can the UK recognize a group of terrorists who skin and behead black men alive. They believe these guys who commit such attrocities are the true representative of the people of Libya? Look on the internet to find evidence of their attrocities. Since so many of these attrocities are available on video, it must mean an even larger number are going unreported.

Wetin United for United Nations
1 veto vote is equals to 92 or more.

France is a member of the same United Nations that passed resolution 1970 stoping anyone from arming both sides in Libya yet France (openly) and others (clandestinely) continue to supply arms to the terrorists. Resolution 1973 asked for the protection of civillians, yet more civillians have been killed since UN led hostilities began in March than before.

How can the UK recognize a group of terrorists who skin and behead black men alive. They believe these guys who commit such attrocities are the true representative of the people of Libya? Look on the internet to find evidence of their attrocities. Since so many of these attrocities are available on video, it must mean an even larger number are going unreported.

Wetin United for United Nations
1 veto vote is equals to 92 or more.

France is a member of the same United Nations that passed resolution 1970 stoping anyone from arming both sides in Libya yet France (openly) and others (clandestinely) continue to supply arms to the terrorists. Resolution 1973 asked for the protection of civillians, yet more civillians have been killed since UN led hostilities began in March than before.

May UN should have allow Muammar Gadhafi to go from house to house and wipe away all civilians completely as promised by the tyrant himself (Gadhafi)? no doubts this option would have suit you.

ROFLMAO!!! Its good to see that alot of Nairalanders are waking up to the reality of the foolish and greedy games of the USA/Britain & French Govt/Elites, Very Good,

As one poster above said, Where are the Elected Democratic Govt
of Tunisia, Egypt & Algeria lol!!! All have Military Junta's now lol!

The vague Hague has goofed again. Foreign secretary shouldnt be for men with no foresight. Its obvious the TNC cannot rule Libya. Its like having a Northern militia oust Jonathan and then appoint one of them to rule Nigeria. It wont work. Same way OPC could not oust Abacha with force. Anything that needs to be done has to be the people's will, not Hague's vague thoughts

To all you guys being cynical about you west's influence on Libya, would it have been better that they (west) turned the blind eye and let Ghaddaffi massacre Libyans? c'mon.

49cents:

To all you guys being cynical about you west's influence on Libya, would it have been better that they (west) turned the blind eye and let Ghaddaffi massacre Libyans? c'mon.

Illiterate,dumb head

I'm not surprised. I always knew the West are criminals. Are they not responsible for the backwardness of Nigeria.yet they claim they travelled around the world spreading Democracy. Democracy indeed.

Thank God today my fellow Nairalanders could see the truth,been a dictator is not the issue.They are against Gaddafi because He knows what they knew,Gaddaffi wants Africa to wake up & take their stand! Today the Rebels has killed one of their headman yuones for suspecting him just like that? I think now the Rebels are divided,China & Russia has been condemning UN going to war in Libya from day one when they discovered the fowl play. Any where oil is America & their types will petch there! Is it only in Libya that has such problem? See Yemen & seria,they wont go there,all they are after is the oil in Libya.God help Africa. I trust Gadaffi the mad dog!Nato is disappointed,they didn't know it will be this difficult. All the rules UN constituted has been violated by Nato members,arming Rebels,trying to assasinate Gadaffi,heading to overthrow Gadaffi,killing civilians they went to protect the sake of oil.Thank God today my fellow Nairalanders could see the truth,been a dictator is not the issue.They are against Gaddafi because He knows what they knew,Gaddaffi wants Africa to wake up & take their stand! Today the Rebels has killed one of their headman yuones for suspecting him just like that? I think now the Rebels are divided,China & Russia has been condemning UN going to war in Libya from day one when they discovered the fowl play. Any where oil is America & their types will petch there! Is it only in Libya that has such problem? See Yemen & seria,they wont go there,all they are after is the oil in Libya.God help Africa. I trust Gadaffi the mad dog!Nato is disappointed,they didn't know it will be this difficult. All the rules UN constituted has been violated by Nato members,arming Rebels,trying to assasinate Gadaffi,heading to overthrow Gadaffi,killing civilians they went to protect the sake of oil.

@49cent
what do you think Nato is doing in Libya now? Uprooting trees? Those bombs do you think they land inside the ocean? Think wisely man human beings like you are escape bombs by luck every day for Christ sake! Why didn't Jonathan allow Boko Haram are they not also protesting?Nonsense!

I'm not surprised. I always knew the West are criminals. Are they not responsible for the backwardness of Nigeria.yet they claim they travelled around the world spreading Democracy. Democracy indeed.
backwardness my ass,have you ever wondered where africa would have been without western influence?backward!

An embarrassing time for the British

especially at a period when signs of discord are beginning to manifest.

Sketchy reports as to who killed the rebel army commander 'Younis'. . .

Now indifferent to their cause

They have now an Al-Qaeda embassy in London. Do these British goons know what they are doing any more?     

UK need a stable oil supplier Soon Boko Haram will have office in London

This colonial mentalists of the UK have come again?
Do they ever mind their business?
HSMP program don fail, it is time to now do the 'scramble and partition' of Libya?
Anything to feed that docile and redundant monarchy of theirs. . .including that their timber-legged Queen wey nor gree quench!

HA!!, the west economy is in tatters, the US is on the verge is an economy breakdown, the eurozone is about to collapse due to massive ressession and massive borrowing by its menber states etc, in the light of this, these ba.stards gonna be aggressive with any african rising economy that dont fall in with their terms and conditions of trade ie one sided trade that favours them.

It just saddens me that Libya one of the strongest and richest states in africa is now turned to a war zone and the ecomony messed and bleeped up in a well and beautifully executed plan in stages, (1) spread rumours Gadaffi wanna massacre his people (2) UN approved intervention coup (3) unelected rebels installed , (4)gangsters, rapist and evil sod given weapons of destruction by the west to kill its people while they drill oil for fun and AU is left to provide peace (4)IMF steps in and put libya in debt, u get my drift and libya becomes just like any other african economy

NATO have so far have killed children, women and men in there quest to remove Gadaffi from power and getting there hands on their oil well but u never read and see this on the news instead we are shown news of a white man in norway killing white folks with fertilizer and bibi gun, meanwhile somewhere in Libya, apache helicopers and sophisticated weapons are been used to slaugter innocent being yet the media never show those

My prediction for next year is as follows, Gadaffi wld be killed, the UK owned BP (british petroleum) will have its headquaters in tripoli and british preofessionals will swamp the libyan oil like locust, hence jobs for bristish people in libya, while libyan nationals who cant find jobs in their country will arrive on the uk to work for the minimum wage while the british media labelling them illegal immigrants

Noam Chomsky once said, In the quest for oil and power, the US and its alies will pull out the stops to prevent any really functioning govenment or peace from developing in the arab world

49cents:

To all you guys being cynical about you west's influence on Libya, would it have been better that they (west) turned the blind eye and let Ghaddaffi massacre Libyans? c'mon.

Ode buruku!!! It's africans like you that seat in front of BBC all day eating the western propaganda, and then drink water to push it down. Which Gaddafi is killing Libyans? keep believing the white man's lie. Just like they lied to you in 2003 that Saddam has WMDs and can destroy half the world in 45 minutes and mugus like you chop am. Same story here, nothing different - It's NATO killing civillians now, dropping bomds everywhere. May the Almighty give Ghaddafi victory over these devils

Chintua:

This colonial mentalists of the UK have come again?
Do they ever mind their business?
HSMP program don fail, it is time to now do the 'sramble and partition' of Libya?
Anything to feed that docile and redundant monarchy of theirs. . .including that their timber-legged Queen wey nor gree quench!

LOL!!! Queen mother live reach 101 ooo, so I sure Lizzy go wan beat im mama record at least by 10 years

Democracy is a disaster to humanity,identity and unity amongst society who wouldve live in peace and mutual growth without it.



Qur'an has described the west as hypocrates i'm not suprise they are doing this

Kc0022000:

UK need a stable oil supplier Soon Boko Haram will have office in London

Stable oil supply dey Niger Delta , and watch, na Boko Haram dey go use enter. The devils house is crumbling under them, EU is going bust, bail-out everywhere, Uk government cuts, so you are right, they need stable oil supply. UK has spent 750 million pounds so far in Libya with no result, and they are cutting pension, healthcare, education, benefits back in the UK, but they know they will make all the money back with profits if they can get rid of Ghaddafi and install their puppet.

As for Boko Haram, won't be surprised if the west will be supplying Boko Haram with money and arms to destabilise the country. Then MI6 go just kaboom one building for central London and blame it on Boko Haram - then france and NATO will join them invade. Na North Boko Haram dey based, but na Niger Delta area they will secure first

Idi-Amin:

Ode buruku!!! It's africans like you that seat in front of BBC all day eating the western propaganda, and then drink water to push it down. Which Gaddafi is killing Libyans? keep believing the white man's lie. Just like they lied to you in 2003 that Saddam has WMDs and can destroy half the world in 45 minutes and mugus like you chop am. Same story here, nothing different - It's NATO killing civillians now, dropping bomds everywhere. May the Almighty give Ghaddafi victory over these devils

thanks for trying to educate that dummy.

the west are now facing a very big dilemma - how to get out of libya without facing even more humiliation - at the moment they have gone from saying that Gadaffi must leave libya to - Gadaffi can now stay - as long as he is not involved in running the country!!!!! see U turn

these fools underestimated the support that Gadaffi has from his people, the civillian population of libya are all armed with kalashnikovs and hand held Rocket propelled grenades, and they are ready to die in order to defend tripoli from a foreign invasion - if gadaffi were hated by his people - do you think he could risk arming 2 million men and women ? - this is what the west are terrified of - they are cowards, they know that they will face a blood bath if they try to invade tripoli using their own troops, it will become a repeat of vietnam and that will definitely lead to Obama's impeachment .

the only thing NATO and the americans know how to do is stay 40,000 feet above ground dropping bombs on pregnant women and babies, now that they have found that they cant remove gadaffi in this way they have started talking about negotiating with him.

Builder:

[b][/b]HA!!, the west economy is in tatters, the US is on the verge is an economy breakdown, the eurozone is about to collapse due to massive ressession and massive borrowing by its menber states etc, in the light of this, these ba.stards gonna be aggressive with any african rising economy that dont fall in with their terms and conditions of trade ie one sided trade that favours them.

It just saddens me that Libya one of the strongest and richest states in africa is now turned to a war zone and the ecomony messed and bleeped up in a well and beautifully executed plan in stages, (1) spread rumours Gadaffi wanna massacre his people (2) UN approved intervention coup (3) unelected rebels installed , (4)gangsters, despoiler and evil sod given weapons of destruction by the west to kill its people while they drill oil for fun and AU is left to provide peace (4)IMF steps in and put libya in debt, u get my drift and libya becomes just like any other african economy

NATO have so far have killed children, women and men in there quest to remove Gadaffi from power and getting there hands on their oil well but u never read and see this on the news instead we are shown news of a white man in norway killing white folks with fertilizer and bibi gun, meanwhile somewhere in Libya, apache helicopers and sophisticated weapons are been used to slaugter innocent being yet the media never show those

My prediction for next year is as follows, Gadaffi wld be killed, the UK owned BP (british petroleum) will have its headquaters in tripoli and british preofessionals will swamp the libyan oil like locust, hence jobs for bristish people in libya, while libyan nationals who cant find jobs in their country will arrive on the uk to work for the minimum wage while the british media labelling them illegal immigrants

Noam Chomsky once said, In the quest for oil and power, the US and its alies will pull out the stops to prevent any really functioning govenment or peace from developing in the arab world

I agree with most of your points apart from:

Gadaffi being killed and BP moving in to take over Libya's oil industry.

NATO will have to take tripoli first and i dont beleive they can do that without sustaining massive casualties - which is what they are trying to avoid because of the backlash they will suffer from their respective populations, america is bankrupt and simply can not afford this war any longer, britain doesnt do anything without america giving authorisation first, the other european countries are totally fed up of wasting money on this misadventure, Berlusconi is being threatened with impeachment by his political opponents in italy if he carries on wasting money they havent got on this fiasco, spain is in dire straits financially, norway stated categorically 2 weeks ago that they would be pulling out of libya once and for all by the end of this month  so the whole thing is falling apart.

Im impressed that you read Chomsky - i read his work too.

It seems high time that we set aside an island for warfare, a war island. Perhaps in the Arctic.

If the govs of US/UK/France/Italy/Canada (under the guise of unaccountable NATO) want to have it out with the Colonel, that's where they should fight! On an island.

No - not the troops! (They are brainwashed, innocent, the youths of a country, led by juveniles who never grew up and still think that killing produces peace).

No, it is the cabinets that should fight, the ministers, spearheaded by the PM or the Prez and elected reps, They can also take their Robber Baron investment bankers along.

Nukes are not allowed, nor cluster bombs, phosphorus, gas of any kind, land mines.  No drones, no tanks, no big guns. Hand weapons only!

If it's Libya against a "contact group of thirty countries," then the Colonel should be allowed to pick a number of his supporters(!) equal to those of  the thirty governments that want to see him dead.

Food and water for thirty days. Monitors, to prevent cheating.

Cameras everywhere, of course, so the world can watch a spectacle that would beat anything TV has to offer, 24/7, the real thing, no lies, until one side has been obliterated

And then let them have a go!

, and recognises Ghaddafi's libya as "Legitimate military target" . How unfortunate !
When this news hit the BBC web site 3 days ago, they were so inundated with negative comments against the hopeless government of Cameron , that by midday the website had switched off its comments completely else with the killing of the rebel commander next day , the website will not have been able to handle the flood of comments against the government. The comments have not yet been opened till this minute and I suspect the government has commanded that it be switched off in same way they asked NATO planes to go destroy Libya's TV.
This country is a huge joke. It is funny though that it still insists on carrying on like it is a country to be reckoned with rather than a spent force.

My prayer is for US to default in his debts even for a couple of days , so that the US, UK and France can finally understand their miserable status , and get their foolish leaders thrown out . As for Obama , he is a disgrace : talks like a black man, walks like a black man and thinks like a white m.o.nkey. I pray they kick his black a.ss out of government. When white american leaders oppress africans we understand the reason, but when a black leader does the same we know who he is trying to impress. Bros no second term for you unfortunately. I will be happy to see you go. You are a disgrace to africa.

To all  the guys going on about a massacre in Benghazi. Answer me this, How come in all the 40 years of Gadaffi's rule, he had never massacred before? He has faced uprisings in the past which he has put down sometimes brutally like most dictators are known to do but never a case of a massacre. Why did the imperialists suddenly think he was going to massacre the people of Benghazi in March? More people have died as a result of the conflict since the involvement of NATO than would have died if Gadaffi had put down the resistance. Bahrain did it, Yemen and Syria are currently doing it. Where is the west trying to protect the 'civillians' in these countries? where was the west when 400,000 were killed in Rwanda? Where is the west when balcks are murdered in eastern towns of Libya? Why wont the foreign press tell us about these atrocities? Why are they not helping save lives in the horn of Africa? Less than a tenth of what has been spent on bombing Libya's people and infrastructure since March would have saved thousand of lives in the horn of Africa. These imperialists do not care about human lives!!

I do not support Gadaffi and in the early days of the 'uprising' when I thought it was real, I was excited that we were going to see the end of another dictator in Africa. One less would been good for Africa, I thought. But since the terrorists in the east took up arms and started their ethnic cleansing of towns in the east, I now know how valid the saying ''the devil you know is better than the one you dont'' is. For all of Gadaffi's shortcoming he is a million times better that these fanatical terrorists trying to take over the country. Google is a very powerful tool. I am sure the powers that be never intended for it to be used this way but if you search well enough you will find the truth online. There are a lot of stories out there but any discerning mind should be able to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

The rebel commander of the rebels, Abdel Fatha Younis who was the former number 2 man in Libya until February 2011 when he defected to the east was executed by the rebels themselves in Benghazi on the 28 July 2011 over 24 hours after he had been placed under arrest by them. The western media will not tell you this. all they will tell you is that he was shot by people suspected to be Gadaffi loyalists. How can Gadaffi be responsible for the assasination of the commander of the entire rebel forces when he is holed up somewhere in Tripoli? If he had the means to carry out such a hit, this was would long be over. The truth is that Younis was killed by the same people the UK recognised  a day prior as the legitimate representatives of the people of Libya. What about the 1.5 million people who came out in Tripoli in the middle of July in support of Gadaffi? Dont their voices deserve to be heard?

If these terrorists who call themselves the interim government of Libya can summarily execute and burn the body of their own army commander, what hope is there for the common man who supports Gadaffi or worse still has the wrong skin colour (black)?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-07-29-libya-rebel-chief-slain_n.htm


Thousands marched in Younis' funeral procession on Friday, as men draped the rebel tricolor flag over his coffin and carried it to a cemetery, where he was buried.

Younis' son, Ashraf, broke down, crying and screaming as they lowered the body into the ground.

"We want Moammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" he shouted at the crowd, betraying his frustration with the months of chaos in the country and a desire for a return to normalcy.

At the funeral, Younis' nephew Mohammad al-Obaidi called Younis a martyr and a champion of the Libyan uprising, while the crowd broke into chants of "The martyr is God's beloved" and "Allah is Great."


Cry the beloved country !

NATO has broken every law in the book in Libya. UN Security council resolutions have been thrown out of the window.
UK/France/Italy/US make the rules, and break them cos they want regime change in Libya.
If it was another country that broke these rules, hell would have broken loose and that dummy court in Hague would have issued arrest warrant. I laughed so hard when the dummy court issued arrest warrant for Ghadaffi, what a joke. Why is George Bush walking around free? the dude has comitted more war crimes than Saddam & Mobutu put together.