Archive: Rebels make commando-like assaults on Tripoli from the sea? Of course they do
First published 22 Aug 2011 on the Luikkerland site
This video appeared on the Telegraph’s live reporting blog (now not hosting comments in case their London-controlled paid-off journalists are discredited by joe public).
The author, a Matthew Holehouse, writes the following about it:
14.14 I can’t verify this footage but it appears to show rebel forces preparing to make a sea landing in Tripoli last night. Interesting that they are still wearing balaclavas – a possible sign that they are still frightened of reprisals against their families, even at this late stage.
It’s not that Holehouse is naive, its that he is just maintaining all the little details which the official narrative demands. Here is another example:
14.01 A Nato source has told Reuters that the Alliance did not coordinate its airstrikes with the rebels as they advanced on Tripoli. But the rebel offensive has forced loyalist commanders to deploy their heavy weaponry in the open, where they have been easier target for Nato aircraft.
“There is a misconception that NATO was working with the rebels in this most recent push towards Tripoli. What happened was the push by the opposition forced Gaddafi’s heavy equipment to come into the open, equipment that he had been hiding … When [government forces] lost ground they used heavy equipment to shell villages they had lost.”
The intention is to paint a picture of an organic people’s uprising. It’s clearly not the case, but this is the official line that the propagandists are working hard to establish. To buy the official line, you have to accept information that suggests that disgruntled Libyan civilians can launch water-borne fighting operations and are wearing balaclavas because they think that the Gaddafi regime (not withstanding the fact that it is apparently on its last legs) will bring reprisals against them. We shouldn’t be surprised that Libyan civilians have a marine corps seeing as they were able to commandeer Libyan government tanks and aircraft at the outbreak of the conflict.
Can we really be fooled by this?
Or maybe we could think a bit and decide that maybe the people in the video have their faces covered because they are CIA-trained Al-Qaeda and there is a danger that we might recognise them when they pop up in Syria in a few weeks time pretending to be native insurgents of that country? I don’t know. There is no way I or anyone else observing can. All we have is the unguarded snippets of information that we put together to try to make sense of the world; snippets like this one that had been collated on the Telegraph page:
rebels are going slow in #tripoli #libya. Regrouping in seaside compound, clearing out areas. One rebel says “tomorrow syria”. ha
The author of this tweet, apparently one Lulu Garcia-Navarro, would like us to think that she heard a joke. They say, don’t they, that jokes are ways of expressing a truth. For crying out loud.
Source: https://twitter.com/lourdesgnavarro/status/105614396914536448
