THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
August 23, 2011
Global Research

Fabricated Scenes of Jubilation and Euphoria on Green Square

by Metro Gael

On the morning of August 22nd 2011, Al Jazeera aired a 'live' report from Green Square in Tripoli,which claimed to show the capture of the Libyan capital by rebel forces. Scenes of jubilation and euphoria enveloped Al Jazeera's reporter Zeina Khodr as she declared: "Libya is in the hands of the opposition."

The images were immediately reproduced throughout the global media complex, with headlines trumpeting the 'end of the Gaddafi regime' and editorials throughout the corporate media world speculating about the post-Gaddafi future of Libya.

Gaddafi's sons were said to have been arrested, and more defections were announced. The Libyan capital was, we were told, now in the hands of the rebel forces. For many, it seemed a fait accompli.

In fact, the Al Jazeera pictures from Green Square were an elaborate and criminal hoax. The report had been prefabricated in a studio in Doha Qatar. . . .

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[Today, the Washington Post reported unrest in Libya which the Libyans believe is led by a Col. Khalifa Haftar based in the U.S. On May 17, 1991 the Washington Times reported that three hundred and fifty Libyans would arrive soon in the United States. . . . the Libyans who arrived in the U.S. in 1991 . . . were trained by our CIA to topple President Ghaddafi. --Enver Masud, "Libya: Who's Terrorizing Whom," The Wisdom Fund, March 26, 1996]


Gen. Wesley Clark, "Memo: Attack Seven Countries in Five Years," Commonwealth Club, October 3, 2007

What did they know when they urged Obama to make war on Libya? "Letter to President Obama about Libya," Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), March 14, 2011

Jean-Paul Pougala, "The Lies Behind the West's War on Libya," pambazuka.org, April 14, 2011

"A War Based on Lies," The Wisdom Fund, May 31, 2011

Lizzy Phelan, Russia Today, August 21, 2011 -- Lizzie Phelan's website, Facebook page, and Twitter account have been disabled. She may be reporting on Libyan Free Press.

[Dr Franklin Lamb, director of the Americans for Middle East Peace, who has consistently put out live interviews from his hotel room where he has shared gathered intelligence and information with the YouTube community, was shot in the leg by a sniper while cycling near his hotel.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, a researcher, also narrowly escaped death from a sniper targeting him as he stepped out of the hotel to place a sign saying "PRESS", and was additionally threatened by CNN journalists.

Thierry Meyssan, who runs the French VoltaireNet blog, said that from the Rixos Hotel, the order was given by so-called "journalists" from the United States to bring down Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan.-- "Assassination Attempts Against Independent Journalists in Libya," mathaba.net, August 22, 2011]

[The slaughter began. Within 11 hours, 1300 innocent civilians were killed in Tripoli, and 5000 injured, as French Foreign Legion and Al Qaeda cut their way through. All this time, the bombings continued non-stop. Three Apaches flew over the city, firing their miniguns. The gangs of Al Qaeda were burning houses, looting shops and assaulting every woman in sight. Any prominent supporter of Gaddafi was targeted and their houses attacked first. The number of gangs is still increasing right now, coming in from the sea in the small NATO crafts, and directed by the Special Forces--"NATO troops in Tripoli," cyaegha-c.livejournal.com, August 22, 2011]

AUDIO: Webster Griffin Tarpley, "Qaddafi's Leadership Structure is Intact," tarpley.net, August 23, 2011

Tripoli's Green Square in India, BBC, August 24, 2011 (at 30 sec)

Madison Ruppert, "Mainstream media admit 'waves of disinformation' in Libya," mathaba.net, August 25, 2011

Fake YouTube, Twitter Accounts From Libya, August 26, 2011

Webster Tarpley, Russia Today, August 26, 2011

Franklin Lamb, "Tripoli: Rumors and Violence, The Hunt for Gaddafi," counterpunch.org, August 26, 2011

[Genocide... Gaddafi is "bombing his own people"... Save Benghazi... African Mercenaries... Viagra-fueled Mass Rape... Responsibility to Protect... Gaddafi-the Demon... Freedom Fighters-the Angels... Victory for the Libyan People... Defeat for "the Left"--Maximilian C. Forte, "The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya," counterpunch.org, August 31, 2011]

William Blum, "The Holy Triumvirate Libya and the World We Live In," counterpunch.org, September 2, 2011

[. . . strikingly different from those of many foreign reporters--"New York Times interview with Lizzie Phelan," lizzie-phelan.blogspot.com, January 31, 2012]

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