Castro: US plans to invade Libya. Too early to criticize Libyan government

[Bacchus39]

Fidel Castro says US plans NATO invasion of Libya
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HAVANA – Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro says it's too early to criticize Libya's government — but just the moment to denounce something says is planned: A U.S.-led invasion of the North African nation.

Castro uses a column published in Cuban media on Tuesday to accuse the United States of planning a NATO invasion of Libya to control its oil. He says that might happen "in a question of hours or very short days."

He says the plan "has to be denounced."

The Communist revolutionary is more cautious about reports by Arab and Western news media that troops loyal to his Libyan ally Moammar Gadhafi have slaughtered civilian protesters. Castro says, "We have to wait the necessary time to know with rigor how much is fact or lie."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_castro_libya

[social_critic]

1. This is really getting good

These guys (Chavez, Castro, Ortega so far) really put a lead weight around their necks with Kaddafi. And they keep piling it on. I love it.

[naaman fletcher]

2. Man who jailed aids patients shows his true colors nt

[joshcryer]

3. US ain't getting involved, UN ain't getting involved, the Libyans are on their own.

They'll succeed, but not with outside help that's for damn sure. And it's going to send a very strong signal to the worlds dictators.

[social_critic]

6. The US shouldn't get involved

I'd rather if the US stays out. Most of the time, whatever the US does misfires, and comes back to haunt us. I suspect the UN will be meeting in the next few days to discuss what to do.

Meanwhile, a group of army officers are trying to form a group in Bengazi to rule the country after Kaddafi is overthrown. They do not intend to have a democratic form of government. These guys are piling up weapons and organizing people to march on Tripoli. They are the ones who organized the calls for the no-fly zone, they don't have planes, but they have tanks and artillery, so they just need for a good samaritan from the West to keep the air clear so they can go to Tripoli and take it over.

This could end up like the deal in 1999 when Clinton interfered in Yugoslavia, bombed the dickens out of the Serbs (bombing which included terror bombing of civilians, by the way), to put in power Hashem Thaci and the thugs from the KLA. Over the last few days, it has been revealed Mr Thaci and his buddies are the main channel for heroin into Europe, are heavily engaged in the white slave business (women taken to be used as prostitute, including minors), and are also engaged in organlegging (they capture Christians, and harvest their organs to be sold for transplants). This type of outcome for US intervention is not desirable.

[joshcryer]

7. Agreed. OT to the forum though so I won't expound.

edit: I'm posting like crazy in GD about this though.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. I Wonder Where Ghaddafi's Mercenaries Came From?

I'm seeing videos where Libyans are being gunned down by foreign mercenaries. Some are reputed to be from Sub-Saharan African countries.

I'm wondering if there are any mercenary pilots working for Ghaddafi, and from where they came from.

[joshcryer]

5. Check out Catherina's threads in GD.

I'd love to discuss it here but it'd be OT and I think I went too OT for the day in that other thread. I don't think there are merc pilots.