Reply #87: Libya government fails to prove claims of NATO casualties [View All]

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Source: Washington Post

By Simon Denyer, Monday, June 6, 2:28 PM

TRIPOLI, Libya —

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Nearly three months into NATO’s bombing campaign, Moammar Gaddafi’s government churns out daily propaganda about the alliance supposedly inflicting civilian casualties. Last week, it said that 718 people had died from mid-March to late May and that 4,067 had suffered significant injuries.

But it has failed to show foreign journalists more than a handful of dead or wounded people. Indeed, when reporters are taken on official trips, what they see suggests that NATO is being accurate and careful.

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It feels like some vast piece of political improvisation, with the participants just riffing off the central theme — NATO is killing Libyans, all of whom love Gaddafi — without any regard for the truth.

The propaganda machine grinds on, with officials filling out reports of trips conducted for the news media, perhaps without even admitting to themselves that no one had been convinced.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/libya-government-fails-to-prove-claims-of-nato-casualties/2011/06/06/AGIluYKH_story.html