PETER'S NEW YORK, Thursday, October 20, 2011--Countering contradictory international mainstream media reports about Muammar Qaddafi's death, sources close to the embattled Libyan leader say he is alive.
"Green Committees have confirmed that the leader is alive, and that the enemy is seeking to take advantage of his being currently out of communications," reported the Mathaba news service only hours after the first reports circulated. "The aim is to please (U.S. Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton who barked at her Arab slaves that she wants Muammar Qaddafi 'dead or alive,'" the news service reported on its webpage.
Earlier this week, Clinton, in a visit to Tripoli, called for Qaddafi's murder or capture.
The Russian news outlet Pravda.ru also published information on its website indicating that Qaddafi was still alive.
"The website of Al-Libya TV channel said that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had not been captured," a Pravda story declared. "He is still alive and healthy, the website says. According to the channel, the photos of the killed colonel were fabricated."
The National Transitional Council, a front for U.S./NATO interests crafted to appear as the organization of a nascent rebel movement, declared Qaddafi dead today. Included in these reports were stories that a convoy holding Qaddafi was strafed or bombed by NATO aircraft; that Qaddafi was hit in the legs and the head; that he was captured in a drainage ditch, that he begged not to be shot; that he died of his injuries, and that his body was dragged through the streets. Some versions say Qaddafi was captured: others say he died of wounds suffered in the NATO attack. Photos alleged to be Qaddafi's body have circulated widely throughout the web.
Sources told Mathaba that the allegedly fabricated news of Qaddafi's death was circulated to provoke communication from Qaddafi so that NATO could get a fix on his location, as well as to demoralize those resisting NATO's attempt to overthrow the Libyan government. It is a well-known tenet of the Western military strategy that if the leader is killed, the resistance is destroyed.
But certainly, the prolonged resistance against what is perceived as the world's most powerful military force is proving to be a deep embarrassment to NATO. Similarly, in the 1990s, when religious adherents resisted U.S. attempts to disband and discredit them during a siege of many weeks in Waco, Texas, an entire compound of 88 people--men, women and children--was wiped out to put an end to American embarrassment on the world stage.
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