I had to put this up before it disappears, I also linked at Penny's blog for posterity's sake.
I can't help but laugh:
Globe and Mail: source reuters
US envoy says Gadhafi troops suing Viagra to Rape in Rebel Areas
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday that troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi were increasingly engaging in sexual violence and some had been issued the impotency drug Viagra, diplomats said.
Several UN diplomats who attended a closed-door Security Council meeting on Libya told Reuters that U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice raised the Viagra issue in the context increasing reports of sexual violence by Colonel Gadhafi’s troops.
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“Rice raised that in the meeting but no one responded,” a diplomat said on condition of anonymity. The allegation was first reported by a British newspaper.
Pfizer Inc’s drug Viagra is used to treat impotence.
If it is true that Col. Gadhafi’s troops are being issued Viagra, diplomats said, it could indicate that they are being encouraged by their commanders to engage in rape to terrorize the population in areas that have supported the rebels.
The use of rape as a weapon during wartime has received increasing attention at the United Nations. Last year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a special envoy on sexual violence during armed conflict, Margot Wallstrom.
Earlier this month, Ms. Wallstrom chided the Security Council for failing to mention sexual violence in two recent resolutions on Libya, despite having made the subject a priority.
Ms. Wallstrom said at the time that reports of rape in Libya remained unconfirmed but cited the highly publicized case of Eman al-Obaidi, the woman who burst into a journalists’ hotel in Tripoli last month saying she had been raped by pro-government militiamen.
The International Criminal Court is already investigating whether Col. Gadhafi’s government committed war crimes in its violent crackdown against demonstrators who demanded greater freedoms. The crackdown sparked a rebellion that has turned into a civil war.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations declined to comment.
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That Susan Rice would even mention this sort of blatent BS is laughable, hysterical and downright tragic.
2 comments:
What is it that is so tragic about this ? Is it the people spinning it or the people that will operate as if they believe it ? You can only feel sympathy for the people who do actually believe it at this point - nearly ten years since we were struck by that evil mastermind, Osama, and more than 15 years since the Kwaiti incubator incident.
I wonder what the purpose of such nonsense is in the long time view.
Nice article, thanks.
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