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4/26/2011

The Rape of Libya

Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 5:09 pm



[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.  Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]

The title is not as metaphorical as you would wish it was.  From the UK’s Daily Mail:

Fuelled ‘by Viagra’, Gaddafi’s troops use rape as a weapon of war with children as young as EIGHT among the victims

Children as young as eight are being raped in front of their families by Gaddafi’s forces in Libya, according to a leading charity.

Aid workers described horrific stories of widespread sexual abuse, including one incident in which a group of girls was abducted and held hostage for four days.

When they were finally released, they were too traumatised to speak.

Other children have described being forced to watch as their fathers were murdered and their mothers raped.

Read the whole thing if you have the stomach for it.  To anyone wondering if a person could do something so horrific, you should read up on what the Japanese did in World War II. The Rape of Nanjing, from which I took this post’s title, was indeed worse although in horrific ways, similar.

H/t: Hot Air.

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]

32 Responses to “The Rape of Libya”

  1. not sure I really believe all that

    happyfeet (760ba3)

  2. the propaganda whores at National Soros Radio have been flogging that al-Obeidi chick mercilessly.

    It’s very suspect.

    happyfeet (760ba3)

  3. fuck these people and their “war”. baracky needs a war dontcha know.

    newrouter (e57c5c)

  4. Gaddaffi is just like Mussolini. Both progressive socialists who on one would show remorse if they died a slow painful death. Also the rebels deserve to join them.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  5. Why does the Obama Doctrine extend to Libya, but not Syria?

    JD (318f81)

  6. no*

    fascists oppose marxism because they believe it is a blasphemy to their worldview.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  7. War crimes and genocide are part of the keep bombing qaddaffi narrative… and for any victims, it will be hard to bring reality to the conversataion.

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

  8. Greetings:

    I’m still on the skeptical end of this spectrum. I think that that is the result of the “Save the Children” group’s involvement and the dictator’s ability to keep dictating in spite of NATO’s ill-conceived operation.

    La Belle France has been trying to put together some kind of Mediterranean Union socio-political group involving southern European, North African and Levant countries. As to the formerly Great Britain, what is there to be said that hasn’t already been said by the Lockerbie bomber for oil sellout? The unsubstantiation part of my brain thinks that our President Obama and Susan Powers, his National Security Council Human Rights Director, (and who knew we needed one of those) got sold on a bit of human rights blather and now everyone is trying to come up with some emotional cover.

    This evening the British Secretary of State for War (well, which is it) was on the Progressice (neé Public) telly going on about protecting the “citizens” of Libya apparently none of whom are on Kadaffy Kaduckh’s side. Oh, I get it, all citizens are created equal; some citizens are created more equal.

    What a mess! And, no matter how it turns out the good old USofA will be awash in Arab/Muslim gratitude which, like the good old Missouri River is a mile wide and an inch deep and unlike the river runs for about 15 minutes.

    11B40 (342179)

  9. Opposing muslim terrorism is the smart thing to do.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  10. What from the folks who gave sanctuary to Abu Nidal, the butcher of the Rome and Vienna airports, who directed the massacre over Lockerbie, to whom we’ve given Asylum too,that still doesn’t explain what we’re doing in Libya now,

    narciso (79ddc3)

  11. It’s amazing how much K-daffy and his henchmen have changed in 25 years. When Reagan bombed them they were just poor, little, helpless victims of American imperialism and aggression, and the United States was roundly condemned by the U.N. General Assembly.

    Now, they’re vicious mass-murderers and rapists who richly deserve to be bombed.

    Go figure.

    Dave Surls (92f486)

  12. Yeah but, did Lara Logan escape unharmed? The enquiring minds of the public need to know!

    Icy Texan (fb7f2c)

  13. No but I heard that qaddaffi stayed at a holiday inn.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  14. “…the dictator’s ability to keep dictating…”

    Well, what do you expect? K-daffy is fighting against Obambi and the French.

    Personally, I think it’s a minor miracle that we’re not seeing Libyan tanks driving through Paris.

    Dave Surls (92f486)

  15. France and Obambi are arguing over who gets to surrender frist.

    JD (318f81)

  16. Teh One is just confused on whether to bow or kneel & bob.

    Icy Texan (fb7f2c)

  17. A.W. – Libya sounds like Rape Rape. Syria is just at the Rape stage.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  18. Daily Mail is not very credible.

    I’m not saying rapes aren’t occurring. They are. It’s just that part of the world. It’s hard to appreciate just how different the culture is. It’s absolutely awful for women.

    truth is, an Air Force only campaign is a hell of a lot more brutal and bloody than a boots on the ground campaign. If Obama has that in mind, hopefully he has the resolve to win. Everything Qaddafi owns that is above the ground needs to be broken. Every place he’s known to reside needs to be a smoldering crater. A large monetary award should be publicized for anyone who presents his corpse.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  19. Daily Mail is my goto source for the scoop on the royal nuptials where that little inbred feller is hooking up with that hoochie I think he met her on the internet

    happyfeet (760ba3)

  20. No Change…Hope died!

    AD-RtR/OS! (35c1e2)

  21. dustin

    i have never seen the daily mail it wrong, and very often on stories people initially claim are dubious, they turn out to be right.

    i am always open to someone being proven unreliable, but no one has made the case yet.

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  22. I am dimly aware someone in the ‘royal’ society is getting married. I couldn’t tell you their names if you put a gun to my head.

    It’s pretty sad that they have royalty in a modern country. The UK is such a disappointment. The only thing they do well is Top Gear, and that’s qualified by low expectations.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  23. OK, I have to admit, I’m not sure exactly why I find Daily Mail to be uncredible, other than their celebrity gossip focus (Which has brought them a number of libel lawsuits they did lose).

    Mondotimes (which gives the WSJ and NYT 4 stars, and USA Today and LAT 3 stars) gives Daily Mail 1 star for content. For some reason, I think people just run into this notion that it’s a low rent publication.

    I’ll concede I have a hard time showing why they are worse than other outlets of its kind (that’s not high praise).

    But consider stories like this one. Scroll to “best rated ” comments. Thousands of their readers support lynching women who have been stripped naked and set on fire.

    Or just look at the main page. The low rent celeb gossip, such as ass photos from a new mother? Tell all books about suicidal businessmen? Descriptions of a royal disco ball, or some idiot’s new tattoo?

    hey, I know I’m just being judgmental, and this is all pretty normal stuff. I just don’t like them.

    In all honesty, I have to concede I have no basis to question their credibility on their Libyan coverage, even after trying to find something.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  24. It’s a populist broadsheet, take it for what it’s worth, sometimes they have incisive writings like the other Hitchens brother, and Michael Burleigh
    impassioned cri de couer against Musa Kusa.

    narciso (79ddc3)

  25. exactly. They are what they are. I was surprised I couldn’t find some examples of them screwing up their news stories (other than what I consider typical), but I guess they actually try to do hard news in a veneer of jackass gossip.

    I wonder how many people are like me, and just don’t take them seriously. They should separate their site into two.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  26. The U.N. Peacekeepers are not in Libya. Why is so much alleged rape going on?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  27. They’ve sub-contracted it to the Libyan army.

    Icy Texan (fb7f2c)

  28. What’s amazing to me is that Libya was elected to the UN Human Rights Counsel in May of last year (they were kicked off in March of this year).

    Libya won with the support of 155 out of 192 nations, via a secret ballot, even though it’s no secret they support terrorism against civilians.

    What did Obama have to say at the time? “Present!”

    It’s things that that, more than even the UN’s peacekeeper atrocities, that ensure the UN is not relevant.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  29. Reagan bombing Qaddaffi-Evil.

    Obama bombing qaddaffi-Awesome.

    How does that make sense?

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  30. While I don’t think that such behavior is beyond possibility for the Ducks forces, I don’t trust the source enough to just take their word for it.

    Understand, it’s not Daily Mail’s credibility I’m questioning, but the “charity” has likely taken sides, and we’ve seen the progressives use lies all to often. With Syria drawing attention, the progressives feel some pressure to “up the ante” against Libya, not least because Syria is revealing the hypocrisy behind their R2P arguments.

    LarryD (feb78b)

  31. But does Whoopi ”I leak my pants” Goldberg think it is rape-rape?

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  32. fascists oppose marxism because they believe it is a blasphemy to their worldview.

    Actually fascism is a Marxist heresy. Mussolini was one of Europe’s leading socialist intellectuals before he decided to support Italy in WW1.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)


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