Reply #21: Libya: lies and spin in Gaddafi's Tripoli [View All]

[tabatha]

In different circumstances, I actually think Moussa would be quite a nice bloke. But in that claustrophobic Tripoli hotel, where he lives and works and spins and lies day in, day out, Moussa Ibrahim has become the face of the regime he’s paid to front.

http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/libya-lies-and-spin-in-gaddafis-tripoli/15723

Libya Dispatch: Lies, Damn Lies and Government-sponsored Trips

The steady diet of propaganda shoved at the captive audience of correspondents has left us all bitter and a bit shellshocked, just automatically disbelieving everything that is said. “This is not government propaganda, this is a true genuine appeal to the international community,” said the government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim one day at a press conference, almost suggesting that everything up until that point had been propaganda.

Watching state television involves a neverending stream of images of planes taking off, explosions and dead children. The impression is that hundreds if not thousands of Libyan children are dying every day from the NATO bombings. Which I suppose is possible, but why aren’t we seeing them?

http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/08/libya-dispatch-lies-damn-lies-and-government-sponsored-trips/

Tripoli Tom, as he is named, is a lying spinner.
If the report came from the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International, then that would be a different matter.