Posted By Colum Lynch
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 5:11 PM
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Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the U.N. Security Council today that there is another good reason to confront Libyan forces. Moammar Qaddafi has reportedly been passing out tablets of Viagra to his front line troops to help them rape women.
Rice made the allegation in a closed-door meeting of the Security Council after facing criticism from council members that the Western-backed coalition has effectively sided with Libya's rebels in the country's ongoing civil war. China, Russia, India and other have expressed concern that the NATO-backed military coalition has exceeded its mandate to protect civilians, and had become a party to the country's conflict.
Rice countered that it is "ridiculous" to describe the conflict in Libya as an ordinary civil war, or to draw moral equivalence between Qaddafi's forces and the rebels. She said the opposition only took up arms after Qaddafi's forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrators.
She also cited reports of Qaddafi's forces shooting at mosques, targeting children and "issuing Viagra to his soldiers so they go out and rape," according to an account by a U.N. diplomat present in the room.
U.N. council diplomats said that Rice provided no evidence to support her claim, which appeared earlier this week in the British tabloid, the Daily Mail. Human rights advocates say the allegation first surfaced publicly last month when a doctor in Ajdabiya, Suleiman Refadi, claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera English that Qaddafi's force's had received packets of Viagra and condoms as part of a campaign of sexual violence. "I have seen Viagra, I have seen condoms," Refadi told Al Jazeera.
Human Rights Watch had interviewed the same doctor previously, and determined that he had no direct evidence to support the claims, and they were not able to identify victims and witnesses in Adjabiya who confirmed such reports. Though they also had no evidence to refute the claims.
Fred Abrahams, a special advisor for Human Rights Watch, said the organization takes reports of sexual attacks seriously, and "we are actively investigating" allegations of the use of sexual violence by Qaddafi's forces in the conflict. "We have a few credible cases of gender based violence and rape, but the evidence is not there at this point to suggest it is of a systematic nature, or an official policy. On Viagra and condom distribution we have nothing so far. It's not to dismiss it, but we do not have" the evidence.
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They're also tossing incubators with new born babies inside them out the windows of intensive care units onto the streets below.
Moreover-I know this definitely-they eat newborns.My 150-year granny informed me and she was told by someone else,who fled from a mental hospital.Because I never use my head in thinking purposes, only for eating by ,surely I trust this info .
Howdy, for the war which is getting worse in Qaddafi's country ,or the saying “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests” could tell people why there was a peace between them and then a war again.
or a new peace talk would stop more people getting killed in the war as more and more people need now.
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Articles like this make me think I'm reading a rag like the NY Post or the Enquirer. You are still allowing garbage comments on the site all over the place. Please hire a professional to guide you FP... you need help. "shooting at mosques, targeting children and "issuing Viagra to his soldiers so they go out and rape"... garbage beginning with the phrase "she cited reports"... blah blah blah. No reference to documented material points anywhere.
It's an erotic fantasy of Mrs. Susan E. Rice!
- I've seen in the hands of one of them a shovel! Gaddafi hired necrophilia!
- In the vicinity of Misurata ran a flock of stray dogs! Gaddafi privechaet bestiality!
- At the frontline, I have not seen any women! Warriors Gaddafi are all gays!
- At the frontline, I have not seen any kids! Pedophiles of Gaddafi are bored with nothing to do!
Personal sexual fantasies Susan E. Rice.
Hmm...
Or hide advertising American Viagra.
"Gaddafi wins only because of Viagra."
ps Strongly real but forbidden :) by western censorship information:
Gaddafi already win.
Federals army annihilated all the leaders of the separatists.
And what?
Ergo, de facto win in war.
For add information - this war is war federal armi against banal Islamic extremists.
The US media took great pleasure in announcing that the CIA was distributing the blue pills to the elders in the villages so that they can "divulge" the whereabouts of the "insurgents".
Wonder who paid the price of these frequent dosage Ms Rice !!!!! Yep no surprise there ,
It seems a little hard to believe that you have to give soldiers Viagra to accomplish what is alleged here. Having been a soldier myself, I know that the average soldier doesn't need or use Viagra. Not to say this sort of action should be done or allowed, but the credibility of the Viagra report has to be called into question just based on simple reasoning and understanding of the average soldier. This is just a little hard to believe.
Now on the flip side, if she had said that they were handing out mind-altering substances to soldiers to make them more aggressive or violent toward the crowd, then I suppose that might be more likely of a story, more believable. A front line soldier isn't likely to have problems in the physical arena, but their conscience might very well affect them---unless one could find a way to alter that with drugs of some sort. But I don't think Viagra does the trick--doesn't turn men into rapists. So she is basically making it seem like that is what Viagra does--turn average soldiers into rapists. Not believable here.
Isn't that Susan Rice the sister of "Craze Condolizza"? Probably this is family feature? In that case she needs to attend soul asylum urgently. Poor Americans-who governs you?!
All wars are the rape of one country by another right out in the open and without any need for viagra either just the urge to dominance and submission on the world scene... super powers only have to shake their big stiicks usually to get passive submissiveness... but sometimes predators have to be employed in the skies..and secret raids made in the night for secret reasons with secret mights under secret lights.. .lighting their stealthy ways. Unknown things for unknown reasons to the unknown...
Longtime Washington Post correspondent Colum Lynch reports on all things United Nations for Turtle Bay.
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