ARTICLE LINK: Dutch citizens are fighting in Syria: spy chief
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2013
INSTEAD OF SUPPORT, CRITICISM: Dutch citizens are fighting in Syria: spy chief
European governments, usually too cowardly to help the Syrian people oust a vicious, mass-murderous Mafia regime, instead, as this Dutch official in the accompanying article is doing, criticize those of their citizens brave enough to volunteer to fight for Syrian freedom on their own. Reality moment: There would have been no significant "Islamist brigades" in Syria if the EU and US had shown more guts and at the very least started providing the Syrian Free Army with useful weapons back in 2012, or even earlier. A number of journalists and analysts have underscored how this created a military/political vacuum that Islamists would soon fill.
ARTICLE LINK: Dutch citizens are fighting in Syria: spy chief
ARTICLE LINK: Dutch citizens are fighting in Syria: spy chief
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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Doctor's song of freedom inspires Libyans – USATODAY.com
We Will Stay Here, a ballad by Adel Al Mshiti, a 38-year-old doctor, has dominated the Libyan airwaves for the past six months. It's played at every demonstration, in every taxi and every shop in Libya's recently liberated capital.
"We will stay here," go the song's lyrics, "until the pain goes away."
PHOTOS: Rebellion in Libya
"We will live here, the melody will sweeten," urging Libyans to stay in the country and endure the oppressive conditions under dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
It was the first song to come out of Libya when the revolution started. When camera crews rolled into Benghazi in the earliest days of the uprising, it was what the crowds were singing as they celebrated liberating their city.
But the story of its inspiration is joyless, as Al Mshiti told it recently in Tripoli.
At age 22, Al Mshiti was a medical student in Benghazi when he was arrested and thrown in prison. His crime was treating the victims of a violent crackdown on anti-Gadhafi protesters in 1996.
Too scared to go to public hospitals where they might be arrested, the injured protesters had turned to Al Mshiti and other sympathetic medical students to treat their bullet wounds. From that moment on, Al Mshiti's home was placed under surveillance.
Eventually, more than 100 armed internal security officers surrounded the house. They entered it and held his mother at gunpoint until Al Mshiti was found and taken away to the headquarters of Gadhafi's security forces in Benghazi.
For 10 days, Al Mshiti lay bound on the floor of a staircase. Guards beat him with boots and electric cables. A few days later he was transferred to a prison in Tripoli, where he spent six months in solitary confinement. His only break from confinement was when he was taken to be tortured or interrogated. FULL ARTICLE HERE: Doctor's song of freedom inspires Libyans – USATODAY.com
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Arab Spring Blooms On Libyan Radio : NPR
Jason Beaubien/NPR: Musicians and other Libyans who once dared not express themselves are finding a new outlet on the country's newly freed radio stations. Shown here, a recent day at the studios of Radio Libya — once a state-run station — in Tripoli.
The fall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has brought about a dramatic change on the radio dial in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
In the past, Libyans could only tune in to the government stations. Foreign broadcast signals were blocked. And what the state-run stations offered was tightly controlled and laden with pro-Gadhafi propaganda.
Now, the airwaves that used to only carry four state-run stations — broadcasting only in Libyan Arabic as a mouthpiece for the Gadhafi regime — are filled with broadcasts from across the Mediterranean and neighboring Tunisia.
There's news from Radio France International. Announcers yell in Italian. A station in Tunisian Arabic can be heard. Shakira is singing in Spanish and English.
In the past, the government jammed all these broadcasts.
Rebels have taken over the main national radio station, which used to be called Al-Libiyah, and renamed it Radio Libya. FULL ARTICLE HERE: Arab Spring Blooms On Libyan Radio : NPR
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