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McKinney said:
<blockquote>"The NTC (National Transitional Council) not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed grassroots-supported resistance, but the various militias....are also fighting each other."
"I believe this 'sociocide' of Libyan society (like in Iraq, Afghanistan and other US war theaters) is part of a carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves US imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel's suzerainty over huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations."</blockquote>
Reports from Misrata say Apache helicopters slaughtered rebel insurgents trying to scale Brega oil platforms.
<blockquote>"A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that (they're all) occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya's ports."
Photos show "Italian encampments....with an announcement that French are to follow."
Moreover, "(t)housands of young (pro-Jamahiriya) Libyans languish under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison....Black Libyans are being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed, and humiliated."
"I hope the report I'm reading from 12 January 2012 is not true."/blockquote
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