According to the Dubai News Service: A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a
cactus-covered desert field are alleged to be grim testament to a 1996 massacre of
more than 1,200 prisoners by Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
25 September 2011
In a truly stunning
display of dishonesty, the BBC has reported, citing no evidence to back its claim
that a mass grave containing over 1,200 bodies has been found in Tripoli’s Abu
Salim prison complex. The BBC attempts to tie this ‘finding’ to the equally
concocted ‘Abu Salim prison massacre’, as it claims that the bodies are those
of the inmates supposedly killed in 1996.
“More than 1,200 bodies found in Tripoli mass grave“.
Categorically,
absolutely, unequivocally, this is an out-and-out lie; 1,200 bodies have not
been found.
Not a single body has been found.
In fact, no excavation
has been performed, and no more than ‘several bone fragments’ have been
discovered, according to the NTC.
This is revealed to the
reader within the BBC’s own concocted report in the paragraphs that follow
(emphasis mine):
A
mass grave believed to contain up to 1,270 bodies has been found in the
Libyan capital, Tripoli, says the National Transitional Council (NTC).
The
remains are thought to be those of inmates who were killed by security forces
in 1996 in the Abu Salim prison.
Excavation
at the site is expected to start soon.
Several
bone fragments and pieces of clothing have already been found in the top soil.
While the unelected,
illegitimate terror council known as the NTC claims to have found merely ‘several bone fragments‘, the BBC
claims that 1,200 bodies have been found in its deliberately misleading
headline.
Even this weak slew of
lies from the BBC exposes the fragile nature of the ‘Abu Salim massacre’
propaganda, as it refers to the evidential basis of the event (emphasis mine):
A
few eyewitnesses have talked about the fact they were killed in their jail
cells by grenades and sustained gunfire after a protest.
Officials
in the new government say they will need foreign forensic help to
determine exactly what happened there.
The BBC’s report contains
testimony from a ‘Sami Assadi’, who claims to have lost two brothers in the
incident.
“Mixed feelings really. We are all happy because this revolution has succeeded, but when I stand here, I remember my brothers and many, many friends have been killed, just because they did not like Muammar Gaddafi.”
The inclusion of this
testimony is a blatant attempt to twist and distort the reality on the ground.
The BBC suggests that the
‘revolution’ has succeeded.
In reality the ‘rebels’
and the foreign soldiers & special
forces leading them, don’t even hold Tripoli, in addition to
countless other locations still held by the Libyan resistance.
These include Bani Walid
and Sirte ~ locations now subject to NATO-prescribed blockades in an attempt to
starve the resistance into submission, coupled with lethal bombing campaigns.
In its crude attempt to deceive
the public, the BBC even manages to contradict itself in this one-page report.
The testimony it provides above suggests that the alleged victims of the ‘Abu
Salim massacre’ were killed because they “did not like Gaddafi“, while the BBC itself claims earlier in
the piece, that they were killed for protesting against conditions in the
prison.
“We have discovered the truth about what the Libyan people have been waiting for many years, and it is the bodies and remains of the Abu Salim massacre“.
As with the BBC piece,
this report also admits that only a few bone fragments have been found and
excavation has not even begun.
Most certainly, this
‘mass grave’ propaganda will drop out of the news without retraction from the
NTC liars or the media lackeys that peddled it, as it turns out to be an utter
falsehood.
‘Abu Salim’ is an event
toted by globalist-Zionist funded Human
Rights Watch as the trump card in the propaganda war against Libya. It is an
event for which there is no physical evidence, and HRW’s report on the event
hinges on the testimony of one person who is now residing in the United States.
That person claims that 1,270 prisoners were killed.
Laughably, HRW even admits
that they cannot independently verify a single detail of
the man’s claims.
Update: 25 September, 2011
Hat tip to @Cordeliers on this. CNN has chimed in, stating
that the bones found did not
even appear to be human:
"A CNN team was brought to the site, a muddy field, with other media, and found only what appeared to be animal bones."
"A CNN team was brought to the site, a muddy field, with other media, and found only what appeared to be animal bones."
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